Scent bottle carved in lava stone in Chinese style

Rare carved Lava Stone scent bottle with Asian decoration and stopper of a chinese man wearing a coolie hat; a short chain links the top hat to the bottle. The ancient eruptions of Vesuvius have created Vesuvian lava stone, a sturdier material than marble: the processing of the lava activity, in fact, has spread in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries around the Vesuvius area, in the heart of the architectural styles of Baroque and Rococo.