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AN ATTRACTIVE SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE A FINE SMALL SHADOW AGATE CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE
Official School, 1780-1880 1790-1880
Of rounded square shape with short cylindrical neck, the darker Of rounded rectangular shape, one main face cleverly carved from
inclusions cleverly edited on one main face to depict a phoenix and a the darker inclusions with a scene of a standing figure punting a boat
hawk above a fruiting peach branch and a tree trunk or possibly a cliff with a seated scholar near the canopy at one end, the moon and a
wall, the reverse with abstract inclusions, all supported on a shallow bat forming a backdrop, with the water rushing under the prow below
oval foot. them, the reverse primarily plain with a few small abstract inclusions.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper 2 1/8in (5.4cm) high, stopper

$2,000 - 3,000 $2,000 - 3,000
1780-1850年 瑪瑙巧雕花鳥紋鼻煙壺 1790-1880年 瑪瑙巧雕人物圖鼻煙壺

Provenance: For another example of a superb chalcedony agate bottle depicting
Asiantiques, May 1993 five figures in a boat carved from the natural dark inclusions in the
stone, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of
For another agate bottle depicting two birds under a leafy tree, see the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. 1, pp.215-216, no.
Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff 128, where the authors further discuss the merits of the group as a
Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 114-115, no. 88. For a similar depiction whole.
on another Official School bottle from the Carl F. Barron Collection, see
Moss, The Barron Collection: Illustrated Handlist, ICSBS Convention,
Boston, 2008, p.4, no. 2519.

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