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: 
81.6.23
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.1 cm, W: 3.6 cm, Th: 1.8 cm; Rim Diam: 1.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1720-1850
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marian Swayze Mayer
Web Description: 
墨绿色涅玻璃光素鼻烟壶

More Info

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

Description

Primary Description: 
Snuff Bottle with Stopper. (a) Opaque dark green glass with some dark blue areas; tall straight-sided form curving to short neck with level rim, oval base ring, undecorated. (b) Coral stopper, long wood spoon carved with twisted handle grasped by a hand, wrist encircled by two loose bracelet rings, straight-sided coral (?) cap.

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1981 (1982) illustrated, p. 5, second from left; BIB# AI97141
Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 99, #37; BIB# AI9252
Glass Snuff Bottles from China from the Mayer Collection (1980) #19; BIB# 30686