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OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1780-1860
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**A CARVED PICTORIAL SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1780-1860
Of rounded rectangular shape, the pale greyish-beige stone, cleverly carved utilizing the darker honey-toned and brown markings with a seated monkey and a bee within a grotto suggested by the concentric bands of greyish-white markings, stopper
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1780-1860
Of rounded rectangular shape, the pale greyish-beige stone, cleverly carved utilizing the darker honey-toned and brown markings with a seated monkey and a bee within a grotto suggested by the concentric bands of greyish-white markings, stopper
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Fritz A. Brockelmann Collection, formed in Canton (Guangzhou) between 1883 and 1899.
Literature
M. M. Renk, "Monkeyshines", JICSBS, vol. 12, no. 4, December 1980, pp. 27-8.
Special notice
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