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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