Details
A Shadow Agate Bottle
1820-1880
Of rounded rectangular shape, black inclusions to one side have been lightly edited with two birds perched on a rocky outcrop, the stone a translucent honey-grey tone, stopper
2.3/8in. (6.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

For bottles of similar type, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 39, nos. 89 and 91. For another agate bottle with birds in branches see, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, p. 234, no. 328

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