Lot 2832
  • 2832

A 'MADONNA AND CHILD' GOGOTTE OLIGOCENE (30 MILLION YEARS OLD)

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 HKD
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Description

  • FONTAINEBLEAU Sandstone concretion over 30 million years
the body of a naturally and densely formed assemblage of rounded bulges and lumps of varying sizes from minute grains of quarts cemented by calcium carbonate, the stone of a soft greyish-white colour, wood stand

Catalogue Note

The first collector of this piece compared it to a mother and her child and titled it as such.