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OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1860
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A SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1860
Of rounded, rectangular shape, carved in low relief on one side utilizing the black markings in the stone with a bird perched on a blossoming plum branch and an excerpt from the poem An Unaccomplished Visit to Yuan Shiyi in Luoyang by the Tang dynasty scholar-poet Meng Haoren, glass stopper
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1860
Of rounded, rectangular shape, carved in low relief on one side utilizing the black markings in the stone with a bird perched on a blossoming plum branch and an excerpt from the poem An Unaccomplished Visit to Yuan Shiyi in Luoyang by the Tang dynasty scholar-poet Meng Haoren, glass stopper
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 23 September 1976, lot 47.
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