A Carved Shadow Agate Bottle

1780-1880

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A Carved Shadow Agate Bottle
1780-1880
Of large rounded square shape, the translucent grey stone carved in high relief through several dark brown inclusions with two horses grazing between a pine tree and a seated monkey, an inclusion on the back is transformed into a bat on a peach spray, stopper
26in. (6.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For an agate bottle depicting two horses carved from white inclusions, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, Catalogue, p. 424, no. 277.

For a paler, less well-defined, agate bottle, formerly in the Alex S. Carsons Collection, depicting a monkey on the back of a horse, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 3 May 1995, lot 458

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