A moss agate plain snuff bottle, well hollowed, with a jade and metal stopper.

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A moss agate plain snuff bottle, well hollowed, with a jade and metal stopper.

Moss Agate Snuff Bottle

 

B4

Quartz, moss agate, mottled areas of russet, mustard and seaweed green running through the colourless chalcedony body; resting on a flat foot.

Chinese, 1750 - 1860
Stopper: green jadeite set in a metal collar
Provenance: The Ko collection, Christies, London, 1973
Height: 5cm

The majority of moss agates are of one predominant colour, this exciting example is of three wonderful symbiotic colours reminiscent of colours in a countryside pool.

 
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