Gourd and Butterflies

1720-1830
Height: 5.5 cm
Mouth: .51 cm  
Stopper: coral, carved as leafy twig

Provenance:
Mrs. Edward Dane
Skinner’s, Massachusetts, April 2008, lot 149
Robert Hall, July 2008
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Transparent golden-brown amber with some internal paler and darker colouring and streaking and minor internal flaws with extensive internal crizzling; carved in the form of a lobed gourd or melon with a severed, leafy branch around the upper area, and two butterflies in flight around the main.

Alexander Whittaker