The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford I'm not really sure whether

I'm not really sure whether to call this penny covered bottle folk art or tramp art or just plain crafty

Approx 7 1/4" across at top x 5 7/8" tall

Scandanavia and the U

She looks to me rather like a lioness

I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day

The Old Hilman House, 1897, Sweet Hand-painted Stoneware Ink Bottle with Blue Flowers vintage ford I'm not really sure whether(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