Carved Lava Stone scent bottle with Asian decoration and stopper of a chinese man wearing a coolie hat; a short chain attaches the top hat to bottle. The ancient eruptions of Vesuvius have created the Vesuvian lava stone, a sturdier material marble: the processing of the lava activity in fact, have spread in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Vesuvius, in the heart of the architectural style Baroque and Rococo.
Italy, 1750 ca 6.5 cm