A MOSS AGATE 'FLOATER' BOTTLE

1770-1850

Details

A MOSS AGATE 'FLOATER' BOTTLE
1770-1850
Of flattened ovoid shape, the narrow sides carved in relief with stylized lion-mask fixed-ring handles, the stone of transparent tone with green moss-like inclusions, stopper
26in. (5.5cm.) high

Provenance

Joseph Baruch Silver Collection
Clare Lawrence, London, 1992

Literature

Joseph Baruch Silver, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver in Conjunction with the Exhbition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1987, p. 23, no. 33
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 352-353, no. 158

Lot Essay

For a very similar example, see Christie's, London, The Edmund F. Dwyer collection, 12 October 1987, lot 188 and also illustrated by Lilla Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Adventures and Studies of a Collector, Vermont and Tokyo, 1981, p. 65, no. 46.
For a similar bottle without handles, see Robert Kleiner, The Bellis Collection, postcard Catalogue, London, no. 80, formerly in the Michael Kaynes Collection.

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