An agate snuff bottle, 19th/20th century, one side carved with a dragon pursuing a 'flaMing pearl' using the brown markings in the mushroom coloured stone, the reverse with a sage walking beside a pine tree and phoenix in flight overhead; together with an agate snuff bottle carved in low relief with mask and ring handles, mottled amber tones, stoppers, (2), the largest 8 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Tasmania