Lot 556
556
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A LARGE AGATE BOTTLE

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A LARGE AGATE BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of rounded rectangular shape, carved in high relief from the dark skin with a long-tailed, deer-like animal standing on rockwork below a pine branch on which a large crested bird perches peering downwards, stopper

Lot Essay

For another agate bottle depicting two deer under a pine tree see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, pp. 280-281, no. 1005, from 'Favorites Among the Favored'. For another, not dissimilar example, see John Gilmore Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, 1982, no. 43