A white banded, very well hollowed, chalcedony snuff bottle with a pink tourmaline stopper.

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Banded Agate Snuff Bottle

 

A white banded, very well hollowed, chalcedony snuff bottle with a pink tourmaline stopper.

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Chalcedony, honey colour with fine white bands running around the middle and lower part of the bottle; the bottle extremely well hollowed, to paper thinness, and resting on a flat foot.

Chinese, 1750-1850
Stopper: Pink tourmaline
Provenance: Hugh Moss, 1978
Height: 4.6cm

 

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