Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal Elgart who painted this had

Elgart who painted this had a pretty great time doing so

The colors and forms remind me so much of Oskar Schlemmer's fantastic costumes for Berlin's Triadic Ballet in the 20s (one pic included in photos)

It appears to be in excellent condition

and thereafter religious themes and motifs were a consistent element in his work

from what I can find) who notes his location as Portland Oregon

Handblown Antique Apothecary Bottle Full of Soluble Blue Pigment composition animal Elgart who painted this hadI've found this bottle near impossible to photograph, but the inset detail in the first image gives a sense of the fantastic blue powder inside, which I take to be Soluble (Prussian) Blue. While most definitely a glorious pigment to use for painting or dying (I dissolved a bit in water and it produces beautiful color), I have a notion housed as it is in an antique handblown apothecary bottle that it may have been used for medical purposes; from what I