AN OCTAGONAL BASALT BOTTLE

1800-1900

细节

AN OCTAGONAL BASALT BOTTLE
1800-1900
Of faceted ovoid shape with a tapering neck and raised on an elegantly proportioned small foot, the dark stone highlighted all over with attractive irregular pink, green and gray inclusions, perhaps suggesting a lotus pond, stopper
26in. (5.5cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

Though rounded and flattened rectangular bottles are not uncommon in this material, no other amygdaloidal basalt bottle of this shape appears to be published. For an example of the more usual shape, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, Catalogue, p. 456, no. 299