A MOSS-GREEN AND WHITE STRIATED AGATE BOTTLE

Details
A MOSS-GREEN AND WHITE STRIATED AGATE BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of moonflask shape, carved through the moss-green skin on one side with a duck swimming near flowering lotus, the other side with a bat near millet and lingzhi fungus, flaw line incorporated in design on one side--2 5/16in. (5.9cm.) high, stopper
Provenance
The Reif Collection, Vancouver
Christie's, New York, October 18, 1993, lot 143
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
Literature
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, June, 1970, Catalogue, no. 113