Fish Eye

1780-1900
Height: 4.5 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.69/1.40 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Jin Hing Co., November 2013

Translucent beige-brown, off-white, and variegated dark brown agate; with a concave lip and protruding flat, oval foot; carved using the marking in the stone for emphasis and as a partial cameo with two carp, one with its head in the upper part of the bottle so that the mouth of the bottle doubles as its mouth, with a natural eye in the agate for its eye, the other curled back on itself on the other main side.