AN AGATE GOURD-SHAPED BOTTLE

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AN AGATE GOURD-SHAPED BOTTLE
1760-1820

The stone of a pale brownish, semi-transparent color with attractive dark brown flecks, mostly in the lower section, stone flaw or minute hairline crack below the central section, stopper

Lot Essay

For a Qianlong-marked gourd-shaped blue glass bottle of almost identical shape, including foot and rim, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, fig. 253