AN AGATE BOTTLE

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AN AGATE BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of rounded rectangular shape, carved in relief using the inclusions with three fish, two fish cut from a darker area of stone, the third diving headlong, the stone of attractive, semi-transparent tone--2 5/16in. (6.3cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

For another moss agate bottle, also carved with a fish from the reddish-brown inclusions and now in the J & J Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kardos Collection, July 1, 1985, lot 73, formerly in the collection of Albert Pyke and exhibited at the Vancouver Museum, 1977; and two others illustrated by Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pp. 56-57, nos. 1 and 2