Snuff Bottle and Stopper

Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper

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Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper
Place Made: 
China
Accession Number: 
81.6.15
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.6 cm, W: 4.2 cm, Th: 2.1 cm; Rim Diam: 1.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1775-1899
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
仿芙蓉石玻璃荷花荷叶纹鼻烟壶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Category: 
Asian
Color: 
(a) Opaque pink
Technique: 
glassblowing
cold-working

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper. Transparent pink and opaque white glass, cork, ivory; blown, cold-worked. (a) Transparent pink glass frits sandwiched in-between two layers of opaque white glass. Ovoid, curving to slightly flared level rim, carved with lotus blossom and pad, stem curving downward and coiled for a base ring. (b) New cork stopper, ivory spoon, opaque white disc, flattened cap of colorless and opaque white banding.

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) #11; BIB# 30686