A RARE MINIATURE AMYGDALOIDAL BASALT BOTTLE

1730-1850

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A RARE MINIATURE AMYGDALOIDAL BASALT BOTTLE
1730-1850
Of compressed apple shape, the black stone with an attractive irregular pattern of outlined mottled green inclusions, the inscribed gold spoon with a white jade top carved as a mallow blossom
1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) high

來源

Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.

拍品專文

The spoon is stamped Zai Qiu Tian Bao, which may be translated 'Precious Treasure of High Official Qiu.'

This is the only known miniature in this material, and one of the best made and finished of all known examples. For three amygdaloidal basalt bottles see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pl. 53, nos. 1-3.