The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl to greet one at breakfast-time

to greet one at breakfast-time

and all original

and the manner in which they are "framed" even more so--whether relics of saints encased in ornate gold and silver cases or shrines

Senator from California

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl to greet one at breakfast-time(First photo is composite showing two views.) I found this one in inland Maine a few years and have had it sitting around since, now here it is. A stoneware bottle, made for ink I believe, but then hand painted with pretty blue flowers on one side and "The Old Hilman House" August 1897 on the other, with what looks like three sets of monograms. I have not had luck identifying the Hilman House in question, but would like the think its inhabitants wrote