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A LARGE AND WELL-CARVED SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1880
The bottle is carved on one side utilizing dark brown markings in the stone with
a fsherman seated in a boat below a vaporous cloud revealing the sun at the center.
The reverse is uncarved.
2æ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1150.
LITERATURE
Symposium on Chinese Snuf Bottles from the Collection of Carl F. Barron, Presented
at the Annual Convention of the International Chinese Snuf Bottle Association, Boston,
privately printed, 2008, p. 17, fg. 9.
A similar agate bottle carved with a fsherman is illustrated in B. Stevens, The Collector’s
Book of Snuf Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 538. The role of the fsherman is discussed by
Terese Tse Bartholomew in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 144,
as one of the ‘Four Noble Professions.’
1770-1880年 瑪瑙巧雕寒江獨釣圖鼻煙壺

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