Curios
Banded Agate Snuff Bottle
$1,280
- Material
- Banded agate with jadeite stopper
- Era
- Qing dynasty, 19th century
- Dimensions
- H 7.2 cm
- Origin
- China
Catalog note
Catalog note. Material: banded agate, layers running diagonally so that russet and cream read as a landscape when the bottle is turned — a mineral “painting” exploited by Qing snuff-bottle workshops. Technique: well hollowed, with a matching dish to the foot; stopper of apple-green jadeite with bone spoon. Dating rationale: hollowing quality, stopper pairing, and band exploitation are consistent with 19th-century Qing snuff culture rather than later tourist hollows. Cultural context: snuff bottles sit at the edge of the scholar’s world — mineral, vessel, and pocket landscape — and are catalogued here among Curios as companions to the studio rather than as tobacco accessories. Exhibition: rotate slowly under raking light to show the band-as-landscape effect.
Unique object. Packed as a work of art. Square hosted checkout.
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