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This is a most unusual bottle of extreme flattened shape. The carver has cleverly used the pale inclusions to one side to depict the elegant female standing beneath the parrot
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A Large Carved Chalcedony Agate Bottle
Of flattened elongated spade shape, carved in relief to one side with a halberd-bearing male standing on the back of a toad with vapour emitting from its mouth, and to the other side with a lady near a table below a parrot in a tree branch, stopper
3in. (7.8cm.) high
Of flattened elongated spade shape, carved in relief to one side with a halberd-bearing male standing on the back of a toad with vapour emitting from its mouth, and to the other side with a lady near a table below a parrot in a tree branch, stopper
3in. (7.8cm.) high