Not sure who this will appeal to here, but I had fun making it. The bottle is inspired by the medieval concept of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Apparently, other than knowing it was from a plant, medieval Europeans had no idea what cotton looked like. Knowing that it was like wool, they assumed that cotton must come from a plant that grew sheep.
Intrigued by the concept of a sheep growing plant, I thought it would be fun to bottle a bit of the cotton as a scientific curiosity. I made a label using an illustration of the sheep tree, and another label that used the Mandeville quote. I also created a seal from the Accademia degl’ Investiganti, a 1600s scientific society. When I was done, I realized it was missing something — it just looked like a bottle of cotton wadding. I decided to sculpt a miniature sheep’s skull to place in the bottle. Mounted on the head of a pin to stay in place, it was inserted into the cotton.
Intrigued by the concept of a sheep growing plant, I thought it would be fun to bottle a bit of the cotton as a scientific curiosity. I made a label using an illustration of the sheep tree, and another label that used the Mandeville quote. I also created a seal from the Accademia degl’ Investiganti, a 1600s scientific society. When I was done, I realized it was missing something — it just looked like a bottle of cotton wadding. I decided to sculpt a miniature sheep’s skull to place in the bottle. Mounted on the head of a pin to stay in place, it was inserted into the cotton.
