Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature Mexican folk art animal etching on heavy paper

etching on heavy paper

sterling silver & pewter using the lost wax process

I purchased it from a British seller

I think this painting in fact captures a view Leonty returned to again and again

The heel requires a little pressure at first to open (it sticks a bit

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature Mexican folk art animal etching on heavy paperI 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