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          A SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE                     A PALE BROWN-OVERLAY CREAMY-BEIGE GLASS SNUFF
          OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1780-1850                          BOTTLE
                                                              1780-1850
          The bottle is carved using the dark markings on one side with a tiger
          attacking a warrior with a shield, with a bird hovering above.  The bottle is delicately carved through the honey-brown overlay with a
          25 in. (6.5 cm.) high, glass stopper                continous scene depicting on one side a crane perched on a rock amidst
                                                              cresting waves and with a counter in its beak, opposite lingzhi fungus
          $5,000-7,000
                                                              emerging from a rock formation below billowing clouds. The reverse is
                                                              carved with a lingzhi plant emerging from a large rock formation beneath
          PROVENANCE:
          David Borowitz Collection.                          clouds and a bat in flight.
          Christie's New York, 23 February 1982, lot 298.     2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
          Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
                                                              $5,000-7,000
          LITERATURE:
                                                              PROVENANCE:
          R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
                                                              Alice B. McReynolds Collection.
          Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 170-171,
                                                              Sotheby's New York, 16 April 1985, lot 32.
          no. 72.
                                                              Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1985.
          JICSBS, Winter 1998, p. 6, fig. 3.
                                                              Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
          1780-1850年 皮影瑪瑙武松打虎圖鼻煙壺                             LITERATURE:
                                                              R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
          來源:
          David Borowitz珍藏                                    Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 102-103,
          紐約佳士得, 1982年2月23日, 拍品編號298                          no. 38.
          何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
          出版:                                                 1780-1850年 涅白地套褐玻璃鶴壽延年紋鼻煙壺
          何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
          Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁170-171, 編  來源:
          號72                                                 Alice B. McReynolds珍藏
          《國際中國鼻煙壺協會學術期刊》, 1998年冬季, 頁6, 圖3                    紐約蘇富比, 1985年4月16日, 拍品編號32
                                                              Ashkenazie & Co., 舊金山, 1985年
                                                              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102-103, 編
                                                              號38

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