SOLD Scarce, Morandi-esque, Pre Civil War Washington Smith, Greenwich Village, NYC Octagonal Stoneware Bottle shivs and wedding cakes

and wedding cakes

but it is always beach time somewhere

Then this great bust of a woman above it

with the yellow house feeling very New England and reminding me of watercolor houses from early-mid 19th c

which shows handwritten text (i presume written by the original owner rather than the maker but hard to know for sure) in graphite on one side

SOLD Scarce, Morandi-esque, Pre Civil War Washington Smith, Greenwich Village, NYC Octagonal Stoneware Bottle shivs and wedding cakesThere 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