Two carved agate snuff bottles


19th/20th centuryThe first a well-hollowed rounded square bottle surmounted with two faux lion mask-and-ring handles on each narrow side, the pale gray colored stone cast with dark brown markings; the second carved from black and brown agate with striking white and pale gray bands framing the narrow sides and carved with two raised lion mask-and-ring handles. 2 3/8in (6cm) height of each
|ProvenanceThe banded dark color bottle: Eldred's Auction, Massachusetts, 2003