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OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1830
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A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE BOTTLE
Official School, 1760-1830
Of rounded-rectangular shape, one side carved ingeniously through the dark markings as a sage seated by a fire, a brazier sending smoke rising towards five auspicious bats swooping across the sky towards an amber-brown setting sun, the reverse with a striking crystalline marking, centered with a creamy-brown inclusion carved in relief as a crouching boy holding a fish, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high
Official School, 1760-1830
Of rounded-rectangular shape, one side carved ingeniously through the dark markings as a sage seated by a fire, a brazier sending smoke rising towards five auspicious bats swooping across the sky towards an amber-brown setting sun, the reverse with a striking crystalline marking, centered with a creamy-brown inclusion carved in relief as a crouching boy holding a fish, stopper
2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob. C. Stevens, Part III, 25 June 1982, lot 109.
Literature
Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, December 1977, p. 39, and Spring 1992, p. 20.
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 145, no. 560.
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 145, no. 560.
Exhibited
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993.