Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal Elgart who painted this had

Elgart who painted this had a pretty great time doing so

first half of the 20th century I think

I think perhaps it was carved wooden nails rather than iron ones that once held the corners together

but I believe with quite a lot of years on it

and thereafter religious themes and motifs were a consistent element in his work

Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal Elgart who painted this hadI've found this bottle near impossible to photograph, but the inset detail in the first image gives a sense of the fantastic blue powder inside, which I take to be Soluble (Prussian) Blue. While most definitely a glorious pigment to use for painting or dying (I dissolved a bit in water and it produces beautiful color), I have a notion housed as it is in an antique handblown apothecary bottle that it may have been used for medical purposes; from what I