snuff bottle

Object NameSnuff Bottle with Cork Stopper

Made FromGlass, Cork, Bone, Rose Quartz

Date1800-1911

Place MadeChina

TechniqueBlown, cased, cold-worked

SizeOverall H: 7 cm, W: 3.9 cm, Th: 3.9 cm; Rim Diam: 1.3 cm

Accession Number81.6.10

Credit LineGift of Marian Swayze Mayer

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

霏雪地套红玻璃光素鼻烟壶

Physical DescriptionSnuff 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.
Provenance

Source Marian Swayze Mayer (d. 1982) - 1981-12-22