A FINE CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

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24.03.2022 12:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 802 | A FINE CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A FINE CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, 1740-1800

The bottle is carved on either side with two confronting archaistic dragons, and is flanked on the shoulders by a pair of stylized animalistic handles, all above the delicately pierced foot.

1 15⁄16 in. (5 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper







Provenance

Hugh Moss.

Edmund F. Dwyer Collection.

Sotheby's New York, 25 February 1982, lot 125.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 38-39, no. 8.
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