AN UNUSUAL SHADOW AGATE 'BASKET-WEAVE AND GOOSE' BOTTLE1780-1880
Of small spade shape, with delicately carved bamboo-like basket weave that stops at the collar of the short plain waisted neck and above the slightly tapering flat oval foot, an unusual, black-outlined misty-white shadow inclusion to one side that resembles a goose with up-stretched neck or a chubby descending long-tailed fish, a well hollowed interior and concave mouth.
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high, stopperFootnotes1780-1880 瑪瑙刻竹簍紋鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 May 1995, lot 465
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
香港蘇富比，1995年5月3日，拍品號465
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For another rare example of this popular basketweave subject in agate, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 2, Part 2, pp. 450-451, no. 347.
AN UNUSUAL SHADOW AGATE 'BASKET-WEAVE AND GOOSE' BOTTLE1780-1880
Of small spade shape, with delicately carved bamboo-like basket weave that stops at the collar of the short plain waisted neck and above the slightly tapering flat oval foot, an unusual, black-outlined misty-white shadow inclusion to one side that resembles a goose with up-stretched neck or a chubby descending long-tailed fish, a well hollowed interior and concave mouth.
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high, stopperFootnotes1780-1880 瑪瑙刻竹簍紋鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 May 1995, lot 465
Eugene Y.C. Sung Collection, Ohio and New York
來源：
香港蘇富比，1995年5月3日，拍品號465
Eugene Y.C. Sung藏，俄亥俄州、紐約州
For another rare example of this popular basketweave subject in agate, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 2, Part 2, pp. 450-451, no. 347.
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