"Stable Interior", Decontextualized (and Independently Resonant) Antique Painting Label antique ironstone jar I have to imagine this

I have to imagine this was made for use in a textile mill or industrial sewing sort of context

and there are eight very tiny holes forming a pattern on the front

8 7/8” tall

very finely done

"Stable Interior", Decontextualized (and Independently Resonant) Antique Painting Label antique ironstone jar I have to imagine thisWith the painting it once titled is now long gone or far away, I find this a most excellent found object. While that painting, by a James Ward, surely depicted the interior of a horse stable, I prefer "Stable Interior" now as a stand alone declaration of one's psychological state i. e., I might look like a mess, but I have a very stable interior! Perhaps especially good hung on a white wall in a quite room with a door that locks, keeping the chaos at