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A BRILLIANT SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
1790-1850 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Of rounded square shape, the honey-gray stone with darker inclusions New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 85.
on one main face, lightly but cleverly edited to depict a grasshopper on
a large beet, another nearby, the reverse plain; stopper. For a similar example in a green-skinned agate, see Rachelle R.
2 3/8in (5.9cm) high Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far from the World, Hong Kong, 1994,
pp. 118-119, no. 46. For another of the same subject but carved in
$3,000 - 4,000 glass, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles From the Collection of
the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London and Bradford,
1790-1850 巧刻影子瑪瑙「國有萬財」鼻煙壺 1974, pp. 92-93, no. G.110.
Provenance:
George Fisher, 1930
Guy Mayer, 1952
Gerry P. Mack
Christie’s, London, The Gerry P. Mack Collection, 4 October 1999,
Robert Kleiner, 15 December 1999, lot 46
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