Two Chinese Agate Snuff Bottles

19TH CENTURY

清中期瑪瑙素面鼻烟壺兩件
the first of carved of a peach, orange, russet, and cream steaked stone to compressed rounded shape, each shoulder carved in low to relief with mock animal mask handles, agate stopper; the second of compressed shield form and well-hollowed of honeyed stone flecked deep brown suggestive of tortoiseshell, jadeite stopper.

Height of taller bottle 2 1/2 in., 6.4 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

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Annie Wu

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.