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A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
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Property from a Private Midwestern Collection
A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1750-1850

Details
A FINELY CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 1750-1850
1 7⁄8 in. (4.9 cm.) high, carnelian stopper
Provenance
The Martin Schoen Collection, New York.
Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection.
Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection; Sotheby's New York, 15 September 1998, lot 384.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2706.
The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part VI; Christie’s New York, 12 September 2018, lot 663.

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Lot Essay

Another carved agate bottle of similar shape and size from the Blanche B. Exstein Collection, was sold in these rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 188. For a series of related Suzhou agate bottles, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Part 2, Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 504-547, no. 366-79.

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