Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal 7 5/8" long

7 5/8" long

from what I can find) who notes his location as Portland Oregon

I think perhaps it was carved wooden nails rather than iron ones that once held the corners together

but I believe with quite a lot of years on it

and thereafter religious themes and motifs were a consistent element in his work

Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal 7 5/8" longI've found this bottle near impossible to photograph, but the inset detail in the first image gives a sense of the fantastic blue powder inside, which I take to be Soluble (Prussian) Blue. While most definitely a glorious pigment to use for painting or dying (I dissolved a bit in water and it produces beautiful color), I have a notion housed as it is in an antique handblown apothecary bottle that it may have been used for medical purposes; from what I