Bottle ID: 225

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QUARTZ, WITH AGATE HANDLES

Date: 1750-1860

Height: 63 mm

 

Crystal, well hollowed, of bulbous ovoid form, the stone with a faint agate inclusion running vertically down the center of the bottle, the sides of banded golden and white agate carved with mock mask and ring handles.

 

Similar Examples:

Nicollier, Verene. The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2007, pp. 262-263, no. H109.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottlles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 1998, Vol. 2, Part 1, pp. 18-19, no. 188.
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, May 3, 1995, lot 495, Collection of Alice B. McReynolds.

 

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Christie's, New York, October 18, 1983, lot 109
The Reif Collection, no. 73

 

 

 

 

The Crane example and its similar examples are of varying shapes, however they bear the same characteristic that the primary material of the bottle is crystal with agate inclusions, rather than the other way round. In all cases the irregular banded agate inclusions are used to great effect providing a strong contrast to the stark crystal, once again proving that it is hard to better in art that which occurs in nature.

 

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