Elevated

Official School, 1780-1870
Height: 6.31 cm
Mouth/lip: .62/2.2 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
The Sheldon Collection, England.
Bonham’s, Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 204

 

Quartz, brown crypto-crystalline agate and ‘star-burst’ crystal combined; with a concave lip and flat foot and footrim; carved on one main side as a cameo with a bee or wasp flying towards a lotus flower containing its seed pod above stems and leaves, the other main side with a natural cloudy beige agate set in a heavily flawed crystal matrix.

Alexander Whittaker