Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature Mexican folk art animal The heel requires a little

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

sterling silver & pewter using the lost wax process

This is an absolutely wonderful old hand-carved wooden frame

but in the eyes of this pup I see him getting ready to fight back

etching on heavy paper

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature Mexican folk art animal The heel requires a littleI 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