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A DENDRITIC SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE For other examples of Official School dendritic agate bottles with
Official School, 1770-1880 darker shadows or inclusions set against a yellowish-brown stone
of rounded square shape with short cylindrical neck, the stone of dark matrix and further discussion of the group as a whole, see Hugh Moss,
honey tone with attractive darker inclusions carved to depict a boy Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles,
standing on a rock holding a branch with a bird atop; stopper. The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part II, Quartz, pp. 298-
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high 302, no’s. 291 and 292.

$3,000 - 4,000 See also Robert Kleiner, Treasures from The Sanctum of Enlightened
Respect, Chinese Snuff Bottles From the Collection of Denis Low,
1770-1880 頒賜品 瑪瑙皮影童子圖鼻煙壺 Singapore, 1999, p.208, no. 179 for a another bottle of similar type.

Provenance:
Henry and Lynn Prager
Robert Kleiner, The Henry and Lynn Prager Collection, June 1998
Barbara and Marvin Dicker, Florida
Bonhams, San Francisco, The Barbara and Marvin Dicker Collection,
23 June 2015, lot 7150

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