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A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1850
The bottle is carved through the opaque white areas of the semi-translucent white and grey
stone with a large gnarled pine tree, the needles picked out in green markings in the stone.
The reverse is carved with fve cranes on top of a rocky precipice and in fight, with green
markings on the rock and translucent, grey vaporous, cloud-like forms above and below.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Joseph Neumann.
Robert Hall, London.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2834.
A similar bottle titled ‘The Six Red-Eyed Cranes’ is illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang in
A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2,
Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 408-11, no. 332. The group of bottles is intriguingly referred to as
‘Eyeball Agate’ bottles.
1760-1850年 水藻瑪瑙雕松鶴延年圖鼻煙壺
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