Lot Essay
For another agate bottle depicting a floppy-eared Pekinese dog see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, pp. 45-47, pl. 16, no. 2
Details
AN AGATE BOTTLE
1780-1850
Of rounded shape, carved in relief on one side using the brown and black inclusions with a Pekinese dog or Buddhistic lion with floppy ears and bell collar, seated beneath a pine issuing from rockwork partially cut from a creamy white inclusion, stopper
1780-1850
Of rounded shape, carved in relief on one side using the brown and black inclusions with a Pekinese dog or Buddhistic lion with floppy ears and bell collar, seated beneath a pine issuing from rockwork partially cut from a creamy white inclusion, stopper
Literature
Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, pp. 80-81, illustrated pl. 81, no. 78