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A CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1850
The bottle is carved on one side using the dark brown inclusions in the stone with
a grazing horse, and on one narrow side with a lingzhi fungus on a rock, all against
a soft honey-brown ground.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1786.
For other masterly bottles with horses see Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese
Snuf Bottle. The J & J Collection, Vol. 1, nos. 134, 151 and 153, where the symbolism of fat
and thin horses is given, explaining that one represents the honest oficial (the thin one)
who remains poor and honest, the other the corrupt oficial, who gets fat through his
corruption. Such bottles were probably distributed as a reminder by the Court to oficials,
but might also have been given between oficials, also as a reminder to serve the Emperor
loyally and the people honestly.
1760-1850年 瑪瑙巧雕駿駒圖鼻煙壺

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