Lot Essay
For an agate bottle carved as a recumbent deer see Art & Auction, April, 1993, for an article by Amy Page entitled 'The Message in the Bottles', p.73
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A GREEN AND WHITE MOSS AGATE 'MYTHICAL TOAD' BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY
Modelled as Luihai's mythical three-legged toad seated on a smooth rock, attractively cut from the stone, with some swirling areas and green moss inclusions, the top of the head drilled for the aperture, the eyes inset with coral, stopper
19TH CENTURY
Modelled as Luihai's mythical three-legged toad seated on a smooth rock, attractively cut from the stone, with some swirling areas and green moss inclusions, the top of the head drilled for the aperture, the eyes inset with coral, stopper