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TWO SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES
1750-1860
The first of rounded square form with a tubular neck, flat lip and
oval foot ring, the dark brown inclusion on one face lightly carved to
suggest a hawk perched on a tree branch above a bear; the second
of flattened ovoid form with tubular neck, flat lip and flat oval foot, the
inclusions incised with a boy, rocks and pine tree, all between lion
mask and mock ring handles on the shoulders.
2 5/8in (6.8cm) high, the taller
$2,500 - 4,000
1750-1860年 瑪瑙巧雕鼻煙壺兩件

Provenance
The hawk and bear bottle: Biarritz, France, 1974
The figure and pine bottle: Eldred’s Auction, Massachusetts, 1985

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AN AGATE ‘CHILONG AND TIGER’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1860
Well-hollowed, of rounded square outline, the caramel colored skin on
one face carved through to form the design of a writhing chilong and a
tiger, all surmounted by a short tubular neck and supported on an oval
foot ring.
2 3/8in (5.7cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

1750-1860年 瑪瑙巧雕螭龍老虎紋鼻煙壺

Provenance
129 Frank Caro, New York, 1972

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