SOLD Scarce, Morandi-esque, Pre Civil War Washington Smith, Greenwich Village, NYC Octagonal Stoneware Bottle composition dolls This absolutely stunning hand-wrought hammered

This absolutely stunning hand-wrought hammered aluminum tray/charger features exquisite low relief renderings of all of the signs and names of the zodiac in low relief on its face

Strung with a rope on the back for hanging

and 2 1/4 inches at the base

The newsstand in the foreground with 7-Up sign is pretty great

and the gurney and wheeled table at the foot of the bed are wonderfully diagrammatic)

SOLD Scarce, Morandi-esque, Pre Civil War Washington Smith, Greenwich Village, NYC Octagonal Stoneware Bottle composition dolls This absolutely stunning hand-wrought hammeredThere is a great antique store I frequent in downtown Cohoes, NY, near Albany; this stoneware bottle has been sitting atop the front counter there for a bit and has struck me anew with its beauty every time I've visited, time and again making me think of a Morandi still life. On my latest visit, I gave in. It's an unusual one for its faceted, eight sided form, an early example of a pressed stoneware bottle from what I've learned, and was produced by W