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AN AGATE ‘MONKEY AND HORSES’ SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
Zhiting School, Suzhou, 1820-1880 New Orleans Museum of Art, October 1980
Of flattened ovoid form surmounted by a tubular neck with a flat lip
and supported on an oval foot ring, the brown inclusions around the 來源：
sides used to carve four dappled horses, one horse with a monkey on Janos Szekeres 珍藏
its back, all within a rocky landscape. Janos Szekeres 珍藏之重要中國鼻煙壺第2部分,紐約蘇富比，1987年
2 3/8in (6cm) high 6月5日，拍品編號148

$3,000 - 5,000 展覽：
新奧爾良藝術博物館，1980年10月
1820-1880年 蘇州 芝亭流派 瑪瑙巧雕馬上封侯圖鼻煙壺
This bottle exhibits all the characteristics of the Zhiting school with
Provenance: its fine carving and clever use of the inclusions in the decoration. For
Janos Szekeres Collection other examples of Zhiting School agate bottles, see Hugh Moss, Victor
Sotheby’s, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The
Collection of Janos Szekeres, Part II, 5 June 1987, lot 148 Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong,
1998, pp. 504-547, nos. 366-379.

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