The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl from a portfolio of a

from a portfolio of a series of botanical studies by an Elsie (Eliza) M

and seems to me quite a singular thing

It looks like maybe a little dust on the surface--I shot with some magnification and did not notice it at all just looking at it

With painterly globs of old paint still on both sides of the palette

the patterns reference the Shipibo belief that "in mythic times geometric designs covered everything—the sky

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl from a portfolio of a(First photo is composite showing two views.) I found this one in inland Maine a few years and have had it sitting around since, now here it is. A stoneware bottle, made for ink I believe, but then hand painted with pretty blue flowers on one side and "The Old Hilman House" August 1897 on the other, with what looks like three sets of monograms. I have not had luck identifying the Hilman House in question, but would like the think its inhabitants wrote