Details
TWO AGATE BOTTLES
19TH CENTURY
One of rounded shape and cleverly carved through orange-brown inclusions with a fish amidst lotus in a continuous scene around the body, star cracks; the other of pebble shape and cut through similar orange-brown inclusions with a mythical flying horse amidst clouds on one side and a scaly five-clawed dragon above a carp on the other, stoppers (2)
19TH CENTURY
One of rounded shape and cleverly carved through orange-brown inclusions with a fish amidst lotus in a continuous scene around the body, star cracks; the other of pebble shape and cut through similar orange-brown inclusions with a mythical flying horse amidst clouds on one side and a scaly five-clawed dragon above a carp on the other, stoppers (2)
Provenance
Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Chicago (pebble bottle)
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, December 2, 1960 (Part One), lot 93
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, December 2, 1960 (Part One), lot 93