Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate 2nd half of the 19th

2nd half of the 19th century I believe

as if a study for a medal to be cast in bronze

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At top is the Clustered Animal Flower "stretching out its claws" and below are a Sea Carnation and a Proboscis Polipus

It would be pretty easy to take this apart if one wished to frame some or all of the pages

Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate 2nd half of the 19thWhat 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