The Polak Imperial Passion

1800-1850
Height: 6.64 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.78/2.10 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
S. Marchant & Son, June 2004   
Margaret Polak   
Bonham's, San Francisco, 22 June 2010, lot 2017

 

Semi-transparent, mottled, honey-beige, and translucent, variegated  brown agate; with a concave lip and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding convex, oval foot rim; carved as a partial cameo on one main side with a Pekinese dog and two doves on a grassy bank, one of the birds in flight, the other on the ground.

Alexander Whittaker