Details
A SHADOW AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1800-1850
Of rounded rectangular form, the bottle is carved on one side using the darker markings with two squirrels nibbling at a bunch of grapes.
2 1⁄16 in. (5.2 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Alice B. McReynolds Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 16 April 1985, lot 84.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 164-165, no. 69.

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