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A CHALCEDONY AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
Official School, 1800-1860 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Of compressed rounded square shape, the attractive stone of a New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 121
deep honey-brown tone with pale wave-like inclusions evenly spread
throughout the matrix of the stone and one main face with a very For another plain agate bottle of similar outline but paler color which
subtle vertical inclusion possibly suggestive of a waterfall, a scholars has been assigned to the ‘Official School’ by the authors, see Hugh
rock, flora, or even a bowing figure amidst misty clouds, extremely well Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
hollowed; stopper. Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2,
2 1/4in (5.6cm) high Quartz, pp. 310-311, no. 296. Our bottle certainly shares a number
of features with the Bloch example, such as an entirely undecorated
$2,800 - 3,500 surface; it is beautifully formed; is exceedingly well hollowed. Unlike the
Bloch bottle, it perhaps takes a less-rich imagination to conjure up a
1800-1860 頒賜類 素面巧色瑪瑙鼻煙壺 landscape within the confines of the stone.

Provenance:
Robert Hall, London Henry and Lynn Prager
Pamela R. Lessing Friedman
Robert Hall, The Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection, London, 5
April 2006

Literature:
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XI — The Snowy Peaks Collection,
2005 no. 49

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