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: 
81.6.33
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.9 cm, W: 4.4 cm, Th: 2.1 cm; Rim Diam: 1.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1780-1860
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Primary Description: 
(a) Opaque brown glass, overlay of opaque dark green glass. Ovoid body sloping to plain high neck with level rim and to base ring of green glass, on each face an applied and carved motif in green glass of a cricket standing on a leafy plant. (b) New cork stopper, polished bone spoon, thin dark green disc, and cap of mottled light green glass (?).

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Color: 
(a) Opaque brown

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) #29; BIB# 30686