1800–1880

Chalcedony agate with the white skin carved on one side with two children climbing on an elephant, revealing a translucent creamy ground with light vertical banding along the shoulders.

A boy climbing on an elephant forms the rebus "May there be good fortune." See Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meaning in Chinese Art (San Francisco: 2006), no. 8.12.

H: 5.1 cm

Provenance 起源: Linda F. Crawley

Published 发布: Asiantiques, A Fascination for Miniatures: The Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff (2008), cat. no. 24

Ref. 024-L0722

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