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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 bottle.
The ancient eruptions of Vesuvius have created the 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 Baroque and Rococo.

Material: lava stone
Size: 6.5 cm
Country: Italy
Year: 1750 ca.

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