Categories: Chinese Works of Art | Collectibles and Curiosities | Exhibitions | The Burghley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles |

A quartz snuff bottle, 1800-1900.

The bottle is of agate with dendritic inclusions which have been skilfully used by a craftsman to suggest the moon setting into a sea of crested waves, thereby transforming a stone of no intrinsic value into a work of great art, 5.2cm

REFERENCE: CSBQ 31

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