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From the Collection of Elsa Glickman, New York
A macaroni agate snuff bottle
1820-1880Of a upright form with a slightly concave lip, raised on a oval foot rim around a slightly recessed, flat foot, carved in relief with fixed lion masks ring-handles, the pale brown stone with irregular opaque white tubular striations and crystalline patterns. 2 3/8in (5.9cm) high
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1820-1880年 瑪瑙鼻煙壺A macaroni agate bottle of similar shape but without handles from the Imperial Collection is illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, p. 238, no. 339 and another is illustrated by Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Burghley House Collection, no. 98. For a further discussion of the name 'macaroni agate' see Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, p.86, no. 65.