Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle pennsylvania folk art embroidery transforming the sculptor's architectural ideas

transforming the sculptor's architectural ideas into reality

including one (pictured first) with white paper adhered to the bottom as a correction or addendum

I believe added at the same time

Early 1940s and by a woman artist

in pencil in the bottom right corner

Drunken! Civil War Era Crooked Neck Knickerbocker NYC Stoneware Beer Bottle pennsylvania folk art embroidery transforming the sculptor's architectural ideasA second example today of just the sort of antique American stoneware that makes me happy this a c. 1860s beer bottle stamped RK & Co Knickerbocker, which I've learned was a brewery at 130 W. 18th Street, NYC, with the RK standing for Robert Kennedy. To me it's the crooked neck that really makes it none too common to find in such a pronounced way, and just perfect for a beer bottle, making it look like an absolute embodiment of drunkeness, and as if