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A FINE AND WELL-CARVED SUZHOU AGATE BOTTLE
School of Zhiting, 1750-1850
Of small elongated spade shape, one narrow side carved in deep relief
through a dark inclusion with a scholar seated on the edge of a large
rock and prunus branches carved from a misty white inclusion below, a
boy attendant holding a wine vessel approaches near a cave entrance
or rocky hillock with a coral branch in light relief before it, the scene
continues to the other side with two piebald horses, one recumbent
beneath a prunus tree and further serrated rockwork, supported on a
flat oval foot with some rockwork details to one edge, all below a short
cylindrical neck with concave mouth and small opening
2 1/8in (5.2cm) high, stopper
$10,000 - 15,000

1750-1850 精美蘇作瑪瑙高士童子圖鼻煙壺一件
芝亭流派
Provenance:
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1994.
Christie's New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, 16
September 2015, lot 226
來源：
露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，Belmont，马萨诸塞州，編號1994
佳士得，紐約，露芙及卡尔‧巴伦珍藏，2015年9月16日，拍品號226
For a slightly larger chalcedony example with similar warm gray
tones with opaque milky areas and darker inclusions, see Robert
Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles III, London, 1990, pp. 88-89, no. 53. It
depicts Liuhai to one side and a warrior and horse to the other set
in a rocky gorge. See also Christie's New York, 21 March 2000, Fine
Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Rachelle R. Holden Collection, lot 132,
attributed to Suzhou and carved with a delightful bucolic scene and
later sold at Christie's New York, 14 September 2016, The Ruth and
Carl Barron Collection, Part III, lot 569.
For a small chalcedony agate bottle with a carved Tongzhi (1860-1875)
inscription and carved with the Bodhidharma reading in a rocky grotto,
see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1987, pp. 26-27, no. 11.

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