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

(I think there was once a small spool/handle at either end of the string for easier gripping)

Some wear to the covers and binding

I think this painting in fact captures a view Leonty returned to again and again

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

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