Lot 543
543
A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE

Details
A SHADOW AGATE BOTTLE
1800-1880

Of rounded rectangular shape, very cleverly carved through a dark inclusion with a lone fisherman in a boat holding a fishing rod and line from which dangles a fish, the rest of the stone plain, a simply cut, oval foot, stopper

Lot Essay

For another example of an agate bottle depicting a fisherman landing his catch, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 287, no. 228, formerly in the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, November 16, 1989, lot 74; and another in the Charles V. Swain Collection illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, p. 142, no. 538