Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate I'd just set it on

I'd just set it on a shelf or use it as a paperweight

I think these were made for lab use and to withstand very high heats

2nd half of the 19th century I believe

Wilis’ name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketcbook

Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate I'd just set it onWhat a weird one! I love it for its strangeness, and how almost demonic she looks, as if having already imbibed a good deal of rum, and with this little fox gazing up at her seeming a bit afraid of what she might do! The wear to the surface just enhances the effect, perhaps making one want to swear off rum altogether! (And it also makes me imagine that whatever rum once filled this bottle had to have been very much a home brew, a la bathtub gin!) 7 1