Message #49551

[Rube]

Hi Everyone,

I read through this entire thread about a week ago, and was blown away by all the bottles.  Tom, thanks for starting this  as your examples are wonderful!  And Adrian, as so often is the case, I seem to be following your lead, and will share another.

I'm calling this a dark crystal bottle of flattened globular form (is this correct terminology?)  sitting on an recessed oval foot rim.  The mouth is slightly concave and the bottle appears well hollowed, and the gilt metal stopper with red glass resembles a chrysanthemum, which may be original to the bottle. I especially like how the carver utilized the natural inclusions of the crystal to shape the bamboo and chrysanthemum.  Bottle w/o stopper measures 5.6 cm.  As always, any help with dating this bottle is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Rube.