$445.00
Our handmade Elements of Grace Collection. This stunning collection features austere beauty and highly sought after antique bottles collected from all around the world. The art of contradiction old and new, rustic and refined. Each bottle has its own unique history and is covered with remnants of the earth that once hid the glass underground for decades and the same earth that is now forever held within the bottle carefully sealed in time. Every bottle has a celebrated history and a newfound timelessness that is created by the very ground that quietly protected it for many many years.
This is a rare antique bottle from 1859. A pale smokey green colored Aromatic Schnapps bottle embossed with "Udolpho Wolfe's ~ Schiedam" The bottle has clear vintage crystals and features a soldered extra large French teardrop faceted crystal suspended from a white and clear faceted Czech glass bead chain. This Bottle was dug in New South Wales, Australia. HISTORY: An advert on TROVE from 1859 A superlative Tonic, Diuretic, Anti-Dyspepsic and invigorating Cordial. This medical diet-drink is manufactured soley by the proprietor at his distillery, in Schiedam, in Holland, expressly for medicinal purposes. It is the pure tincture of juniper, distilled from the best barley that can be selected in Europe at any cost. It is flavored and medicated, not by the common harsh berry, but by the choice botanical variety of the aromatic Italian juniper berry, whose more vinous extract is distilled and rectified with its spirituous solvent, and thus it becomes a concentrated tincture of exquisite flavor and aroma, altogether transcendent in Its cordial and medicinal properties to any alcoholic stimulant now in use In the world."
Height 14.25" x Width 4.50" x Depth 3" Weight 2 Pounds 15 ounces
Our Glass Cross Bottles are made from antique unearthed glass bottles, most over a century old, and each with a rich time worn history and a story all of its own. Each bottle, some from the early Americas and most from Europe, has an archival patina kissed by age and its own unique declaration of another era of time gone by. We add reclaimed and collected parts from European lead crystal chandeliers both vintage and antique. Each lead crystal has a unique shape and color that infracts light with an incredible display of dazzling prisms of light.
Each bottle is articulated with a unique artistic interpretation and the crystals have been fastened with a layering of heavy old world solder that is then hand washed with a time worn rich patina of blackened pewter and weathered iron. Many of our Cross Bottles are dressed and adorned with collected Czech rosary chain and crystals beads, seashells, jewels, and seed pearls that have been saved and collected for many years. Other bottles are further embellished with sterling silver treasures and pewter wax seals, jeweled hearts and crosses. Careful attention is given to the selection of all of the impeccable details.
Lovely in a window where they can work their magic making light dance. They are also stunning in small groups where they are just absolutely breathtaking.
These bottles, for the artist, are a very special interpretation of God's Grace of Salvation at the Cross of Calvary. They celebrate the creative artistic gifts that are given to us by the Creator to reflect His brilliance and His great gift of love for us all as individuals created in His image. It is our hope that the beauty of these artistic bottles will have a very special meaning to all that chose to own or to share one and that they will bring great joy along with their incredible shimmering beauty.
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