The amber bottle of full rounded spade shape with an opaque orange tone to one side and a mostly semi-transparent dark amber to the other, carved in a continuous Daoist scene with boys amidst trees, one side with Liuhai and his three-legged toad below a wutong or maple tree, the other with a bird amidst prunus branches above playful boys and a child carried on one boys back; one agate with a seated horse near rockwork with a monkey holding a twisted rope tied to the horse carved from a pale brown inclusion, the other agate of tapering rectangular shape with Buddhistic lions and a ribboned ball on one main face and a hawk on rockwork below the sun on one narrow side.
2 1/8in (5.3cm); 1 15/16in (4.9cm) and 2 1/4in (5.6cm) high, stoppers (3).
The amber bottle of full rounded spade shape with an opaque orange tone to one side and a mostly semi-transparent dark amber to the other, carved in a continuous Daoist scene with boys amidst trees, one side with Liuhai and his three-legged toad below a wutong or maple tree, the other with a bird amidst prunus branches above playful boys and a child carried on one boys back; one agate with a seated horse near rockwork with a monkey holding a twisted rope tied to the horse carved from a pale brown inclusion, the other agate of tapering rectangular shape with Buddhistic lions and a ribboned ball on one main face and a hawk on rockwork below the sun on one narrow side.
2 1/8in (5.3cm); 1 15/16in (4.9cm) and 2 1/4in (5.6cm) high, stoppers (3).
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