Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature German wooden toy but between that sky and

but between that sky and off kilter checkerboard floor and super bright bouquet it also has a bit of a Chicago Imagist feel about it to me

with great much weathered dark green painted surfaces

visible against the dark blue of her dress

I would guess used by a logger/lumberer

PA Opera House

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature German wooden toy but between that sky andI couldn't resist this these found at an antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA. A collector friend recently showed me an old porcelain condom mold in his collection of a similar ilk to these, but I think these are pretty decisively bottle nipple molds, to my mind a perfect feminine counterpoint! And to my sensibilities there is a certain surrealist or Louise Bourgeois esque quality to the whole nest of them an uncanny sort of outcrop, emphatic