拍品 127
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AN UNUSUAL AGATE DOUBLE BOTTLE
AN UNUSUAL AGATE DOUBLE BOTTLE

1760-1860

细节
AN UNUSUAL AGATE DOUBLE BOTTLE
1760-1860
The attached bottles of cylindrical form with waisted necks, the stone of a soft grayish-beige tone, stoppers
2in. (5cm.) high
来源
Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.

拍品专文

Double bottles were designed to hold two different kinds of snuff, and were made beginning in the first half of the Qing dynasty. The true snuff afficionado could distinguish the many different flavors, ages and grades of so multiple bottles evolved to carry more than one type.