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: 
81.6.37
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.5 cm, Diam (max): 3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1750-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper. (a) Opaque medium green glass; mold-blown, pod form, mouth opening cut off flat, pointed base, overall pattern in softly rounded relief of oval rings enclosing circular rounded forms suggesting rough skin of some vegetable (probably 苦瓜 Bitter gourd) or fruit. (b) New cork stopper, ivory spoon; gilt disc of ropelike edge, cap a two-pronged stem of coral.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Category: 
Asian
Color: 
(a) Opaque medium green
Technique: 
mold-blown

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) #33; BIB# 30686