AN AGATE 'MOUNTAIN' BOTTLE

1750-1850

Details

AN AGATE 'MOUNTAIN' BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of small rounded square shape, with dark inclusions to one side suggestive of a mountain or cave, the reverse with a cobweb-like area surrounded by the natural structure of the clear stone, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high

Provenance

Robert Kleiner, London, 1992

Literature

Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 260 (divider page)

Lot Essay

Rachelle R. Holden, ibid, p. 260, illustrates this bottle alongside lot 134 from the present sale because of the similarity of the material and because both bottles have inclusions suggestive of mountains.

For a larger example with markings suggestive of mountains, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 405, no. 265.

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