Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature German wooden toy A few tiny spots and

A few tiny spots and a couple of bits detached at one end

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

crisp and clean and bright

and I must say this piece has quite an amazing presence

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature German wooden toy A few tiny spots 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