1032 – Spirit Bottles

Physical description:

7 glass Spirit Bottles containing various ingenious constructions - paper and wood flowers, a spiral-staircase-like construction, frames wrapped with coloured thread and with hanging rods, bells, beads etc.

Museum classification:

Spells & Charms

Size:

Largest 300 x 120 x 120 mm

Information:

If you have an unwanted spirit in your home a glass spirit house such as this will keep it amused indefinitely. The more going on inside the bottle the better.
The contents of one bottle containing flowers disintegrated during the winter of 2008 for no obvious reason (possibly due to raised humidity).

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Glass, wood, thread etc.

If you have an unwanted spirit in your home a glass spirit house such as this will keep it amused indefinitely. The more going on inside the bottle the better.
The contents of one bottle containing flowers disintegrated during the winter of 2008 for no obvious reason (possibly due to raised humidity).