Sold for $1,188

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Lot Description

Two Chinese Banded Agate Snuff Bottles

19TH CENTURY

清中期纏絲瑪瑙素面鼻烟壺
the first of compressed flask form, worked from a honeyed stone with an even white band bisecting the bottle laterally, rose quartz stopper; the second a slightly smaller example of rectangular form with beveled edges, the grey stone streaked with white, caramel, and lavender, agate stopper.

Height of taller bottle 2 3/8 in., 6 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

Accessioned in 1975.

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