Chinese Fossiliferous Limestone Snuff Bottle. 19th/20th century. Of Pear-form, the creamy grey matrix suffused with black chips. The material from which the stone is made is sedimentary rock - the sediment of the seabed in which various marine and other organisms cement themselves together under great pressure. Provenance: David Chang Collection (San Francisco, California). Refer to a similar bottle illustrated Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedan Collection, Denver, 1990 P 85. Fig 62. See last image. See More