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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.
18 in. (5 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
$10,000-15,000
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.

An agate bottle supported on a pierced foot, but with calligraphic
incised inscriptions on either side, is illustrated by H. Moss in Chinese
Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 74, no. 196.
Another agate bottle also supported on a pierced foot is in the Denis
S. K. Low Collection and illustrated by R. Kleiner in Treasures from the
Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, no. 173.

1740-1800年 瑪瑙雕龍紋鼻煙壺
來源:
莫士撝
Edmund F. Dwyer珍藏
紐約蘇富比, 1982年2月25日, 拍品編號125
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
出版:
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁38-39,
編號8

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