Four agate snuff bottles19th/20th century
The first carved from a honey-toned matrix, decorated with layered lotus petals surrounding its side walls; the second and third of pale gray color, well-hollowed, one in thin-sectioned circular form, decorated with a yin-yang symbol to both sides, the other of simple ovoid profile supported on a carefully finished oval foot ring; the fourth a very well-hollowed shadow agate bottle, utilizing the natural darker inclusions in the stone, carved to form an animal and rock design.
2 3/8 to 2 3/4in (6 to 7cm) high (4).注脚Provenance:
Circular bottle decorated with yin-yang symbol:
King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 3 May 1998
Shadow agate bottle:
King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 12 February 1998