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A CARVED SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
1800-1850
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, carved utilising dark inclusions to one side with two courting magpies amidst prunus branches, the reverse plain, stopper
2.1/8in. (5.3cm.) high
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, London, 1992
Literature
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 90-91, no. 32

Lot Essay

For another bottle of similar type formerly in the Bob C. Stevens Collection and the Alice B. McReynolds Collection, see Robert Kleiner, The Bellis Collection, postcard Catalogue, London, no. 22

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