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A CHALCEDONY SHADOW AGATE 'MONKEYS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE 1750-1860 image 1
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PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 201

A CHALCEDONY SHADOW AGATE 'MONKEYS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1860

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A CHALCEDONY SHADOW AGATE 'MONKEYS AND BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE

1750-1860
of flattened rounded rectangular shape, the grey and dark brown markings in the otherwise semi-transparent honey agate are lightly edited to depict two monkeys on a rocky outcrop, one holding a stick, that he stabs towards a butterfly overhead, with another in flight lower down, the reverse side with differing color inclusions in the upper third and the neck suggestive of buildings in a landscape set before towering mountains, all below a cylindrical neck with concave rim and fairly large mouth, supported on a short foot with a flat oval foot ring and shallow flat base.
2 3/8in (6cm) high, stopper

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1750-1860 影子瑪瑙雙猴圖鼻煙壺一件

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, London

Published:
ICSBS, Journal, Winter 2005, front cover

來源:
Robert Kleiner,倫敦

出版:
ICSBS Journal,2005年冬季刊,封面

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