Lot 124
  • 124

An Agate Striated Snuff Bottle Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 HKD
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Description

  • agate; stopper: glass
the globular body of honey-brown colour with attractive white striations

Catalogue Note

For a closely related example from the Qing Court Collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pg. 165, no. 247. For another similar example, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 2, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 215.