Snuff Bottle and Cork Stopper

Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Cork Stopper

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Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Cork Stopper
Place Made: 
China
Accession Number: 
81.6.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.5 cm, W: 3.3 cm, Th: 2.2 cm; Rim Diam: 1.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1750-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
亮蓝玻璃点子鼻烟壶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Color: 
(a) Transparent dark blue

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle and Cork Stopper. (a) Translucent dark blue glass, vari-colored inclusions, and aventurine glass; ovoid body sloping to a level rim, shallow base ring, close inclusions of glass, including aventurine glass. (b) New cork stopper, very short ivory spoon in paddle shape, tinted ivory (or bone?) hemispherical cap of carved ivory terminating in round finial.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1981-09-09 through 1981-10-03

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 99, #37; BIB# AI9252
Glass Snuff Bottles from China from the Mayer Collection (1980) #10; BIB# 30686