Ancient Remains

1760-1880
Height: 6.3 cm
Mouth/lip: .6/1.6 cm
Stopper: green-stained quartz; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Clare Chu, Los Angeles, October 2006

 

Fossil-bearing limestone of black colour with grey-white fossils; of rounded rectangular form with a cylindrical neck, concave lip and protruding, concave oval foot surrounded by a flat footrim, the narrow sides with raised, concave, elongated-oval panels; the black limestone containing a series of fossilized organisms of irregularly cylindrical form, cut through to appear as a series of white dots on the two main sides, and as elongated forms on the narrow sides

Alexander Whittaker