Snuff Bottle with Cork Stopper

Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle with Cork Stopper

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Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle with Cork Stopper
Place Made: 
China
Accession Number: 
81.6.10
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7 cm, W: 3.9 cm, Th: 3.9 cm; Rim Diam: 1.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1800-1911
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
霏雪地套红玻璃光素鼻烟壶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Color: 
(a) White, dark red
Technique: 
glassblowing
casd glass
cold-working
Material: 
rose quartz

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle with Cork Stopper. Dark red glass, black disc, cork, bone, rose quartz; blown, cased, cold-worked. (a) "Snowflake" glass, thin casing of dark red glass from shoulder down; straight sides curving to high neck flaring slightly to level rim, curving in at bottom to wide-oval base ring in red surrounding the level surface of the basic ground. (b) New cork stopper, bone spoon, black disc, hemispherical cap rose quartz.

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) #6; BIB# 30686