the first of a caramel-colored agate relief-carved with a duck and a rafting boy bearing giant flowering peony branches, the second a pudding stone bottle with relief-carved lion-mask handles, stoppers (4)

George Crofts & Co., Toronto, 1923.
Collection of Lieutenant Colonel Norman Pearce, Toronto.
Collection of Richard Callery Pearce, Toronto (1921-2014)

The agate bottle with scattered small chips and abraded areas around the edges including the mouth and foot. The pudding stone bottle with a flake chip at the foot, old scattered chips and minor abrasions around edges including the mouth, and light surface scratches.
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