SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration ww2 drawing 7 1/8” across at base

7 1/8” across at base

4 1/2" x 2 7/8"

2 7/8 d x 1/2 t and in good condition

Lewis Haehnlen took over manufacturing there in the 1860s

SOLD Beautiful, Unusual Antique Treen Powder Flask with Lovingly Carved Decoration ww2 drawing 7 1/8” across at baseI watched this online for a couple of days before purchasing it but kept thinking about it in the interim, and I remain fairly obsessed with it now. A very elegant, graceful form, carved of very beautiful wood that looks like burl and is a rich honey color (detail photos of the wood give a sense), with very lovingly relief carving of a leafy vine along the top ridge, almost evoking a spine, which then branches to encircle the neck, as if wrapping