Black Frost

1770-1860
Height: 6.4 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.66/2.12 and 1.55 cm (oval)
Stopper: tourmaline (either original or made subsequently to fit the oval neck)

Provenance:
Robert Hall, May 2013

Dendritic agate; with a concave lip, slightly convex foot and flat foot with a natural design of foliage.

This unusually accentuated flat form presents the natural design of the main side ideally, a design that could be interpreted as fan-tailed goldfish or the water-weeds amongst which they swim, or, of course trees in landscape. With transmitted light, the markings show up even more spectacularly.