Snuff Bottle and Stopper

Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper

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Object Name: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper
Place Made: 
China, Beijing
Accession Number: 
81.6.5
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6 cm, W: 4.8 cm, Th: 1.3 cm; Rim Diam: 1.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1800-1850
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
仿玛瑙玻璃鼻烟壶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Mayer, Marian Swayze (d. 1982), Source
1981-12-22
Category: 
Asian
Color: 
(a) Transparent brown, white
Technique: 
glassblowing
cold-working
Material: 
bone
Inscription: 
慎德堂 / Shende tang
inscription
: 
incised base

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle and Stopper. Transparent brown and opaque white glass, black, coral cork, bone; blown, cold-worked. (a) Transparent brown glass, areas of opaque white; ovoid, broad shoulder, short neck flaring to level rim, oval base ring. Mark incised on base: "慎德堂 Shende tang (Hall of the Cultivations of Virtue)". (b) Ill-fitting new cork stopper, bone spoon, black disc, hemispherical coral cup.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1981-09-09 through 1981-10-03

Publications (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 99, #37; BIB# AI9252
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1981 (1982) illustrated, p. 5, left; BIB# AI97141
Glass Snuff Bottles from China from the Mayer Collection (1980) #1; BIB# 30686