Bottle ID: 816

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FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE, MULTI-COLORED

Date: 1750-1860

Height: 62 mm

A fossiliferous limestone snuff bottle, well-hollowed, of tapering ovoid form, with a cylindrical neck and slightly concave oval foot, the white matrix suffused with fossilized inclusions, probably of small sea creatures and coral, in tones of dark and light gray and orange.

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art 
A Private French Collection

 

 

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