ID 718480
Lot 835 | A CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1770-1830
The bottle is carved on one side with a monkey seated on rocks, scratching its head with one hand and picking a cluster of lingzhi with the other with billowing clouds above. The clouds continue on the reverse above a three-character inscription in relief, cai zhi tu (picture of picking the herb of immortality).
2 1⁄4 in. (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Arthur Gadsby Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 1991, lot 88.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
JICSBS, March 1979, p. 15, fig. 6.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 158-159, no. 66.
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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