GO! 19th C. Stoneware Beer Bottle with Perfect Impressed Monogram graduated stacking toy 8 1/8 x 7 and

8 1/8 x 7 and in good antique condition

looking like a true reincarnation of Joan of Arc

I believe they date to the 1780s or so and are likely Belgian

And so I take this painting as portraying a moment of mourning

(Later there would be kewpie paper dolls

GO! 19th C. Stoneware Beer Bottle with Perfect Impressed Monogram graduated stacking toy 8 1/8 x 7 andI very much admire American stoneware experts, but am very much not one of them, and though there are crocks and jugs I find extraordinarily beautiful, it is really not my terrain. But of course I would fall for a c. mid 19th c. stoneware bottle impressed with the monogram GO as in Go! Seems as if ideally suited for a drinking game. Or for delivering a motivational morning tonic. Or just having around as encouragement. A nice heavy bottle too, with