FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
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A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of rounded square shape, carved in high relief through a dark skin with Liuhai luring his three-legged toad with a string of cash, standing on low-relief-carved rockwork and a lotus, the reverse with a bat and cloud wisps cut from minor dark inclusions, the bottle extremely well hollowed and almost transparent, stopper
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of rounded square shape, carved in high relief through a dark skin with Liuhai luring his three-legged toad with a string of cash, standing on low-relief-carved rockwork and a lotus, the reverse with a bat and cloud wisps cut from minor dark inclusions, the bottle extremely well hollowed and almost transparent, stopper