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AN UNUSUAL STRIATED AGATE BOTTLE
1740-1860
Of flattened, lobed melon form with a severed branch around the top forming the neck and lip, the material striated in swirling tones of gray and white, one side with a patch of blood-red markings, stopper
2in. (5cm.) high
Provenance
Vassar College.
Chait Gallery, New York.
Hilda Somers Collection, acquired prior to 1952.
Exhibited
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p.11.

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