**A RARE AND FINELY CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE

1760-1820

细节

**A RARE AND FINELY CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1820
Of well-hollowed cylindrical form with flat lip and countersunk flat foot, rounded shoulder, cylindrical neck and lipped rim, the translucent stone of pale greyish-white color with faint cloud-like markings, coral stopper with integral finial
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

来源

Hugh Moss Ltd, 1975.

展览

Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, 1992.

拍品专文

This exquisite masterpiece of formal integrity, hollowing, detailing and finish, is part of a small series of tapering cylindrical agate bottles. Each has a small, outer neckrim, a typical feature of the Palace Workshops, as well as a neatly recessed flat, circular footrim.
Other examples include one in the Bloch Collection (illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. 2, Quartz, no. 358, which bears the mark Yijin Zhai (The Studio where Imperial Favor is Appreciated) and was made for Prince Yongxing (1752-1823), and another formerly from the Alice McReynolds Collection (Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1985, lot 103).