S75 An agate “Three high mountain peaks” snuff bottle

Description

Description:  Chinese agate snuff bottle of rectilinear flat square shape, with a flat raised panel on each side and grooved corners. On one of the panels there are three bands of mottled brown inclusion, which because of the shading are looking like a sequence of three mountain peaks, being the highest one surrounded by clouds. This cloud effect is due to a white inclusion that is highlighted under a certain angle of lighting. The last picture is showing three real peaks surrounded by clouds in a snow mountain valley of Yading National Nature Reserve, Daocheng County, Sichuan Province, China.

Foot/base:  Flat protruded base

Mark:

Dating:  18^th Century. (See Note below).

Material:  Agate

Size:  60 mm high

Stopper:  Green jade stopper and bone spoon.

Provenance:  Antiquarian market

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Notes:  The overall shape of the bottle, the strangled neck and the ratio between the diameters of the mouth opening and the neck of this bottle is pointing toward the 18^th Century, as commented for our very similar bottle S35.