Chalcedony; with a slightly concave mouth and supported on a shallow foot rim with broad edges, a natural inclusion on front lightly edited to reveal a tree with a gnarled trunk, well hollowed, Official School.
1750-1850
6.2cm
Provenance
Eric Young
Société Jersiaise
Sotheby’s London, 23 March 1988, lot 133
POA
This bottle marks a transition between the Ink-play series in which the patterns are left entirely as found within the material and a series where some surface editing of the material has taken place to help reveal a particular subject. The dendritic inclusion is entirely unaltered where as the inclusion below has been edited to reveal the trunk of the tree.The Scene could also depict a peacock displaying its feathers.