Witch Bottles

Wheel thrown bottles with hand sculpted details. Finished with a copper oxide glaze and cork stopper. 
Various shapes & sizes 
“Witch bottles’ is the name given to 17th–century glass and stoneware vessels believed to have served as objects for ritual protection or as the containers of a ‘prepared cure’ against witchcraft.”
These witch bottles were created with a particular kind of protection in mind. That of Place, Nature and Home. The landscape of Britain; protected by its animal inhabitants by reciting the spell… 
“One’s for sorrow, 
Two’s for Joy. 
Three’s for a girl 
And fours for a boy. 
Fives for silver, 
Six for gold. 
Seven’s for a secret never told”