COILED BOTTLE IN CARRIER

VESSEL
Written By Zoë Ene
Pictured: COILED BOTTLE IN CARRIER

From: *Possibly* Somalia 🇸🇴
Source: “African Furniture & Household Objects” by Roy Sieber

Source notes: “Coiled bottle in lashed splint carrier. Somalia (?) H. 15 in. (38.1 cm)”
Observations: formal harmony between the bottle and its carrier/case (ridges), functional ornament (cowrie grips), beauty in utility (carrier designed to display bottle), considering how two objects interact/intersect (positive wooden splints fit into negative bottle grooves, guiding the latter into place)
Zoë Ene
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