A MOSS AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of flattened rectangular form with angular shoulders below a cylindrical neck, resting on a raised oval foot, the stone suffused with orange inclusions on the shoulder with dense crystalline moss-green threads throughout the pale gray body

Robert Hall, London, 2001.

Good condition. There is a tiny bruise which appears as a white patch on the stone on the edge/underside of the foot.
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