Egret Lotus

1750-1860
Height: 6.88 cm.
Mouth/lip: 0.80/2.41 cm
Stopper: ruby; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Private collection, San Francisco
Clare Chu, Los Angeles, March 2011

 

Transparent, dendritic grey, grey, beige, and variegated brown agate; extremely well hollowed, with a concave lip and flat, oval foot; the natural markings in the stone edited to create a design of an egret in a lotus pond with smaller foliate beside it and the sun filtering through the larger leaves above.

Alexander Whittaker