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TWO HARDSTONE BOTTLES, ONE QUARTZ, ONE AGATE
19TH CENTURY
The quartz bottle of rounded rectangular shape and carved with monster-mask fixed-ring handles on the narrower sides, the stone transparent and with fine attractive fish-net inclusions, rim nibble; the shadow agate bottle of smaller rounded rectangular shape cleverly incorporating the dark inclusions in the stone to depict a bird under pine, stoppers (2)
19TH CENTURY
The quartz bottle of rounded rectangular shape and carved with monster-mask fixed-ring handles on the narrower sides, the stone transparent and with fine attractive fish-net inclusions, rim nibble; the shadow agate bottle of smaller rounded rectangular shape cleverly incorporating the dark inclusions in the stone to depict a bird under pine, stoppers (2)