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Three agate snuff bottles, Qing dynasty, 19th century | 清十九世紀 瑪瑙鼻煙壺一組三件
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March 29, 03:05 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Three agate snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th century
清十九世紀 瑪瑙鼻煙壺一組三件
comprising a carved agate 'eagle and qilin' sꦿnuff bottle; a flatten🐎ed silhouette agate snuff bottle; and a carved agate snuff bottle, stoppers (6)
Height of tallest 2½ in., 6.3 cm
'Eagle and qilin' snuff bottle:
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair.
Sotheby's New York, 22nd September 1995, lot 158.
Vanessa F. Holden, New York, September 2000.
'Eagle and qilin' snuff bottle:
S.V.R. Camm𒅌ann, Miniature Art from Old China: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Montclair ꦓArt Museum Collection, New Jersey, 1982, pl. 294.
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