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My First Agate Bottle

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« on: July 13, 2014, 03:48:19 am »

Hi All :

Just got my first Agate bottle.....









I cant find the meaning of 2 bats and a beast..... does anyone know ? Is the beast a badger, 獾 (huan), 獾 sounds the same as 欢 which means "fun, happiness" . Or the beast is a leopard 豹 (bao)..... which sounds like 报 which means "annouce" in chinese......... Any comment of the bottle about age, quality, etc are most welcome......

Thanks a lot for all your help

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五花馬,千金裘。呼兒將出換美酒,與爾同銷萬古愁。

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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2014, 04:20:15 am »

Dear Yee Pin,
Beautiful bottle with a nice Foo dog and 2 Bats carved in high relief.
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2014, 06:33:11 am »

Beautiful bottle YeePin !

I do not understand what might be the sun at the end of the foo dogs tongue .. Maybe I am seeing that incorrectly.. Maybe that is not suppose to be the sun as it lacks the character 日.

The pair of bats can mean, May you have double blessings. The bat stands for blessings. Two bats increase the amount of blessings one receives.

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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2014, 09:27:36 pm »

Hi YeePin,

This is a relatively modern agate bottle (post 1960). I have one or two which are possibly from the same workshop. Their output is of a fairly high standard with good quality finishing, and they don't appear to be 'faking' any earlier bottles. In my opinion this puts your bottle a few notches up on other contemporary ones.

Hang onto it - this will be one of tomorrow's treasures. Congratulations!

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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2014, 07:57:25 am »

Thanks for the information... Appreciate ....

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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2014, 11:31:52 am »

Pin,

An absolutely great looking bottle and one I would not mind having!  I agree with the others here on the dating.  The bottle shape tends toward a number of bottles produced in the last half of the 20th century.  But also as mentioned hardstone bottles, particularly of quality, are hard to dated unless there is a mark, calligraphy, or known line of provenance. 

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