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AN IMPERIAL-TYPE PALE SEMI-TRANSPARENT AGATE For examples of Imperial agate bottles attributed to the Palace
BOTTLE workshops between 1760 and 1799, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
Attributed to the Beijing Palace Workshops, 1750-1820 and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and
Of high-shouldered flattened spade shape, carved around the body George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 468-
with a thin band of formalized ruyi at shoulder height divided by 475, nos. 354-356.
delicate animal-masks with elongated fixed-ring handles, the waisted
neck with a band of plantain leaf lappets below a thin rounded band at
the rim, a medium opening and extremely well hollowed to the interior,
a smaller band of lotus petal lappets above the short rounded oval foot
ring with shallow cut base.
2 5/16in (5.9cm) high

$4,500 - 7,000
1750-1820 御製式半透明淺色瑪瑙鼻煙壺一件
或爲北京宮廷作坊

Provenance:
Jeff Kramer Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Hall, London, 2015

來源：
Jeff Kramer收藏，洛杉磯，加利福尼亞
Robert Hall，倫敦，2015年

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