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A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
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A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1850

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A RARE PEBBLE-FORM MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1850
The bottle is carved through the opaque white areas of the semi-translucent white and grey stone with a large gnarled pine tree, the needles picked out in green markings in the stone. The reverse is carved with five cranes on top of a rocky precipice and in flight, with green markings on the rock and translucent, grey vaporous, cloud-like forms above and below.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Joseph Neumann.
Robert Hall, London.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2834.
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Lot Essay

A similar bottle titled 'The Six Red-Eyed Cranes' is illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 408-11, no. 332. The group of bottles is intriguingly referred to as 'Eyeball Agate' bottles.

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