Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature mythology depicting a fox as a

depicting a fox as a knave of hearts

with some black ink spattering around the letters that seems likely original to it

In its original frame

but the density of the design

Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature mythology depicting a fox as aI 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