Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck wooden acrobat but blocks instead of vessels

but blocks instead of vessels

with the bleed through of the reverse page showing a bit more pronounced in photos than in fact

The sliver or silver plated band on this very lovely antique clothes brush shows a series of dates

constellations

Plus a great green paper cover with drawings of geometric shapes

Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck wooden acrobat but blocks instead of vesselsThis I think is quite a special, early one I don't pay much attention to glass (except for ancient Roman!) but the etched decoration covering most every inch of this decanter bottle is like my very favorite sort of early 19th century naive drawings watercolors and needlepoint samplers. With an urn on each side giving rise to a tall, flowering stalk, and two more flowering stalks on the shorts sides, framed by joyfully zig zagging lines to either side,