Lot Essay
For other bottles with monkeys with sticks below butterflies or wasps see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, pls. 120-122
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AN AGATE BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY
Carved on one side using the natural inclusions with a monkey crouched on a rock beneath a pine branch suspending a tied package, a butterfly nearby, stopper
19TH CENTURY
Carved on one side using the natural inclusions with a monkey crouched on a rock beneath a pine branch suspending a tied package, a butterfly nearby, stopper