The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl It looks like maybe a

It looks like maybe a little dust on the surface--I shot with some magnification and did not notice it at all just looking at it

Early 19th century American

to greet one at breakfast-time

and all original

Happy things

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers wire bowl It looks like maybe a(First photo is composite showing two views.) I found this one in inland Maine a few years and have had it sitting around since, now here it is. A stoneware bottle, made for ink I believe, but then hand painted with pretty blue flowers on one side and "The Old Hilman House" August 1897 on the other, with what looks like three sets of monograms. I have not had luck identifying the Hilman House in question, but would like the think its inhabitants wrote