Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature mythology more personal samplers that really

more personal samplers that really get me

when Chicago and its Union Stock Yard stood at the center of the meatpacking industry

making it a nice addition to a brush collection

but the density of the design

Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature mythology more personal samplers that reallyI know this is an old one, as I found it along with remnants of an antique hand cut tin lattice sleeve, which would have held it to make it usable (no longer the case.) Which made me realize how lovely an object a liberated (and thwarted) hourglass is when set on its side formally and metaphorically resonant in all sorts of ways! 2 1 2" long. Hand blown, with pontils at either end, and satisfying pinkish brown sand. Nice patina to the surface of the