Close to Nature

1730-1880
Height: 5.62 cm
Mouth/lip: .65/.85 cm
Stopper: mother-of-pearl; coral collar

Provenance:
Robert Hall
The Ferrari Collection
Robert Hall, October 2012

 

A seed pod with a lacquered or polished dark, purplish-brown surface and silver; of natural, irregularly compressed ovoid form, transformed into a vegetable or fruit form by its silver neck in the form of a quatrefoil calyx with a formal neck rising out of it with a wide mouth and flat lip

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Alexander Whittaker