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A CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1750-1850 1750-1850年 瑪瑙雕人物故事圖鼻煙壺
The bottle is skillfully carved using the dark and light inclusions, on one 來源:
side with a sage greeting an attendant under a pine tree. The reverse is Squadron Leader S. B. Johnston珍藏
carved with a tethered horse looking back on vapor rising above. 莫士撝, 香港
Gerd Lester珍藏, 紐約, 1982年
2º in. (5.6 cm.) high, stopper
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
$5,000-7,000
出版:
莫士撝, 《Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group 》, 倫敦, 1971
PROVENANCE:
Squadron Leader S. B. Johnston Collection. 年, 頁 58, 編號149
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Hugh Moss, Hong Kong.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁148-149, 編
Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1982.
號61
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
LITERATURE:
H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971,
p. 58, no. 149.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 148-149,
no. 61.
An Official School agate bottle carved from a similar creamy grey
stone was sold at Christie's New York, 13-14 September 2012, lot 1125.

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