Seven Magpies

Official School, 1800-1900
Height: 6.18 cm
Mouth/lip: .61/1.9 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-bronze collar

Provenance:
Robert Hall, September 2015
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent honey-grey and brown agate, with a concave lip and slightly convex foot surrounded by a flattened footrim;  a thin layer of darker colour edited as a silhouette design of seven magpies in a flowering prunus tree growing near a rock.

Alexander Whittaker