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A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'PEANUT' BOTTLE

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A CHALCEDONY AGATE 'PEANUT' BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

Of irregular pebble shape, carved with peanut shells to one side and a lotus pad to the other from pale inclusions, the body predominately of darker tone and lightly incised all over with a wavy ground, stopper

Lot Essay

For another bottle of this type see Christie's, New York, The Reif Collection, October 18, 1993, lot 141 For other examples of the so called 'peanut' group see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, pp. 59-61, figs. 153-161, where the author states "their total dissimilarity to the usual type of bottle...is due to the distinctive material which must have become available at some time during the nineteenth century, and which prompted the workshop to produce a popular line of bottles in this design"