Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck southwest native My favorite thing

My favorite thing

and it's a beauty

(Originating as as a literary riddle game in 18th century France

I have also found "muffineers" of the same style

then a series of embossed and lightly inked vertically running lines

Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck southwest native My favorite thingThis I think is quite a special, early one I don't pay much attention to glass (except for ancient Roman!) but the etched decoration covering most every inch of this decanter bottle is like my very favorite sort of early 19th century naive drawings watercolors and needlepoint samplers. With an urn on each side giving rise to a tall, flowering stalk, and two more flowering stalks on the shorts sides, framed by joyfully zig zagging lines to either side,