A Decorative Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Poison Bottle for Sub-Chloride of Mercury sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Art Nouveau is essentially curvilinear

Art Nouveau is essentially curvilinear

is the museum of Rouen

The red of the composition seems to crop up on several other paintings by Etty and he seemed to favour rather dark backgrounds pierced with the greens and browns of trees and the draped reds of passion

which mate with new queens and have no stinger

Small natural history collections were common in mid-19th century Victorian homes

A Decorative Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Poison Bottle for Sub-Chloride of Mercury sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Art Nouveau is essentially curvilinearOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Base Diameter: 3. 25 inches Height: 7. 5 inches The clear glass bottle with frosted neck and square cut glass stopper with two applied labels, HYDRARG. SUBCHLOR. (Hydrargyri Subchloridum) and POISON. These labels we think were applied at different stages of the bottles life, the upper being slightly later. The neck has a chipped crack to it but the rest of the whole is