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Two Malachite bottles

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« on: January 20, 2017, 03:58:59 am »

Hi George,

You're right in not understanding why it wasn't hollowed down to the base as I have delved around inside it with a cocktail stick and it is hollowed all the way down.

It's so small that you can't really tell where the weight in it is but is heavier than you would expect for it's size and considering it's well hollowed. The weight is in the shoulders which due to the length of the neck couldn't be worked. And yes, a flat base. I wouldn't have been brave enough to take the thinness of the malachite in the neck to where the carver did, as a material it seems relatively brittle.

Regards, Adrian.
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