A CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 830
24.03.2022 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 718406
Lot 830 | A CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
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$ 5 000 – 7 000
A CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1850

The bottle is skillfully carved using the dark and light inclusions, on one side with a sage greeting an attendant under a pine tree. The reverse is carved with a tethered horse looking back on vapor rising above.

2 1⁄4 in. (5.6 cm.) high, stopper







Provenance

Squadron Leader S. B. Johnston Collection.

Hugh Moss, Hong Kong.

Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1982.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 58, no. 149.

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 148-149, no. 61.
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