Lot Essay
For another naturalistic tree-trunk, root-amber bottle carved with a fish see Sotheby's, Billinghurst, June 25, 1991, lot 202
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A ROOT AMBER BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY
Of naturalistic tree-trunk shape, delicately carved with a long-tailed bird standing on a gnarled tree stump above water, details picked out in gilt, the eye of the bird and the two eyes in the tail plumage inlaid in red and green respectively, some age cracks, stopper
19TH CENTURY
Of naturalistic tree-trunk shape, delicately carved with a long-tailed bird standing on a gnarled tree stump above water, details picked out in gilt, the eye of the bird and the two eyes in the tail plumage inlaid in red and green respectively, some age cracks, stopper