Wonderful Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with Little Houses, Flags, and Tower Perched on Push Up Bottom Canelos Quichua pottery clearly 19th c

clearly 19th c

and structures and interactions occurring at a cellular level

and sits nicely perched on a shelf

and I'll keep buying them when I found them

Wonderful Old Folk Art Ship in a Bottle with Little Houses, Flags, and Tower Perched on Push Up Bottom Canelos Quichua pottery clearly 19th cI look at a good number of ships in bottles, but am not sure I've ever seen one done in such deeply recessed (push up) bottom let alone incorporating that indented glass bottom so dramatically into the scene! The bottle is thick pale green blown glass, with some nice big air bubbles in it, and that deep concave bottom serves as a high perch for what looks to me like a tower and a fortess though it also looks a rather like a lighthouse! Several small