A LARGE PICTORIAL SILHOUETTE AGATE BOTTLE

1800-1900

细节

A LARGE PICTORIAL SILHOUETTE AGATE BOTTLE
1800-1900
Of rounded-rectangular shape, the darker markings on one side lightly carved to suggest a scene of a hawk perched in the upper branches of a tree, its head turned towards a butterfly, stopper
2½in. (6.2cm.) high

来源

David Borowitz Collection.
Christie's, New York, 23 February 1982, lot 103.

拍品专文

This is delightful example of the group of Official School bottles which are part natural designs, or shadow-agates, and part silhouette, where a thin surface plane of color has been slightly edited. The scene evoked is a powerful one, of a hawk, perched in the upper branches of a large tree, watching a passing butterfly.