A SMALL AGATE BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of small flattened rounded shape, the abstract patterning suggestive of a cobweb to one side and mountains to the other, stopper
1.5/8in. (4.1cm.) high
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, London, 1992
Literature
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 260 (divider page)
Lot Essay
Rachelle R. Holden, ibid, p. 260, illustrates this bottle alongside lot 122, from the present sale because of the similarity of the material and the depictions suggestive of mountains.
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