Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush Just a bit of cracking

Just a bit of cracking to the wood at bottom right

This one has had a life

and have never seen another like it

I don't believe it can be removed from the cage--at least I have not been able to get it out--but it might be possible from exactly the right angle

but it is signed with a chop at lower right

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush Just a bit of crackingI 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