Aquamarine

1760-1860
Height:  4.6 cm.
Mouth/lip: 1.03/1.8 and 1.6 cm. (oval)
Stopper: ruby; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Arthur L. Loveless
The Riddell Collection
Bonham’s, New York, 22nd March 2011, lot 98

Published:
B.C.Stevens, A Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1976, fig. 667.
JICSBS, Winter 2012, p. 19, fig. 41, bottom left

 

Transparent, pale-blue aquamarine; with a wide mouth, concave lip and flat, oval foot.

Alexander Whittaker