10 septembre 2010
'Puddingstone', fossiliferous limestone, mammoth tooth, amygdaloidal basalt & hair chrystal snuff bottles
A 'Puddingstone' snuff bottle, 1750-1820. photo courtesy Sotheby's very well hollowed, of rounded form supported on a neatly carved oval footrim, below a cylindrical neck, the shoulders with well carved lions-head suspending mock ring-handles, the stone...