Antique Watering Can with Most Beautiful Lines for serving drinks 6 3/4" x 4 3/16"

6 3/4" x 4 3/16"

when I did I realized it was quite a large one

I might say this carver did manage to capture some of their strangeness fairly well--and perhaps this one is meant to be a protective mother

Near the lip on one side is the original Arabia sticker

not knowing quite what to make of it

Antique Watering Can with Most Beautiful Lines for serving drinks 6 3/4" x 4 3/16"There are some things I hunt for and some things that just find me I wasn't searching for an antique watering can, but how could I look at the line of that spout and not bring it home? (What a perfect forward pointing gesture, as if first thinking upward, but then correcting to drive straight ahead.) And with the handles opposite and above perfectly balancing it. And a two part lid, with one side hinged to flip up to fill. Late 19th century European I