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: 
81.6.21
Dimensions: 
H: 7.3 cm; W: 5.1 cm; D (rim): 1.6 cm, (mouth): 0.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1730-1780
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper. (a) Translucent colorless glass with slight opaque white flecking, overlay of dark blue glass, carved with bamboo, plum, linzhi auspicious clouds, rock, phoenix and chrysanthemum flowers. Ovoid form sloping to tall straight neck with level rim, ring of blue overlay applied at level oval base. (b) New cork stopper, ivory spoon, black disc, hemispherical cap of dark blue glass.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Category: 
Asian
Color: 
(a) Translucent colorless
Technique: 
carving

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) #17; BIB# 30686