Snuff Bottle with Stopper

Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle with Stopper

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Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle with Stopper
Place Made: 
China
Accession Number: 
81.6.28
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.4 cm,W: 3.1 cm, Th: 2.2 cm; Rim Diam: 1.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1780-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
蓝套粉红玻璃鱼藻纹鼻烟壶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Color: 
(a) Opaque medium blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
cased glass
carving

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle with Stopper. Opaque medium blue and pink glass, cork, bone, black disc, agate; blown, cased, cameo carved. (a) Opaque medium blue glass, opaque pink glass overlay; blown and cameo carved cylindrical body narrowing to straight neck, level rim, base ring of mixed blue and pink; upper body plain, lower body of waves, on each face pink overlay of diving carp and aquatic leaves. (b) New cork stopper, long bone spoon, black disc, hemispherical cap of agate.

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) #25; BIB# 30686