Lot 25
Lot 25
THREE HARDSTONE BOTTLES

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 4,000
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USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
Closed: 29 Jul 2013
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THREE HARDSTONE BOTTLES

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 4,000
Closed: 29 Jul 2013
Price Realised USD 4,000
Closed: 29 Jul 2013
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THREE HARDSTONE BOTTLES
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The first is a striated limestone bottle of flattened, ovoid form, the lower section of grey tone and the upper section a dark brown. The second is a fossiliferous limestone bottle of rounded, tapering form on an oval footrim, the stone densely packed with white, spikey inclusions in the taupe-gray ground. The third is an amygdaloidal basalt bottle of rounded form with grey and pink-beige striations against a black ground. Together with circular snuff dish decorated in cloisonné enamels with a ribboned stack of books and scrolls.
the bottles: 2 5/16, 2½, 2 1/8 in. (5.8, 6.5, 5.8 cm.) high, two glass and coral stoppers (3)
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