Happiness from the Gourd

1800-1880
Height: 5.87 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.80/2.24 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with archaistic ‘c’ scrolls

Provenance:
Mary Kaufman
Robert Kleiner, March 2013

 

Translucent grey-beige and pale brownish beige agate; with a concave lip and recessed, slightly convex, oval foot surrounded by a protruding broad, flat, oval foot rim; the darker colour in the stone edited to provide a silhouette design of a double gourd with a cloud of vapour emerging from it containing five bats in flight.

Alexander Whittaker