A Carved Amber Bottle
1850-1900
Of flattened rounded spade shape, the amber in two distinctive colours, carved on the translucent honey side with a bat swooping above a deer, and to the opaque butterscotch side with a bird flyng above a flowering mallow, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high
Lot Essay
For a small rectangular amber bottle carved with a deer to one side, see Christie's, Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot 643
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