A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE

1800-1880

Details

A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
1800-1880
Of rounded square shape, cleverly carved using dark inclusions to depict a hawk perched on rockwork with the moon in the background, the reverse with an abstract pattern suggestive of a full moon, stopper
2½in. (6.3cm.) high

Provenance

The Fernhill Park Collection, The Chinese Porcelain Co., New York, 11 November, 1992

Literature

Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Fernhill Park Collection, Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 25, no. 96
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 96-97, no. 35

Lot Essay

For similar bottles see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, London, 1971, p. 52, no. 134; and Pamela R. Lessing Friedman, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 78, no. 56.

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