snuff bottle
Object NameSnuff Bottle with Top
Translation周鴻來刻白色涅玻璃鼻煙壺
Maker(engraving)
Honglai Zhou
Made FromLead Glass, Gilt Metal
Date1880-1920
Place Madepossibly China; possibly Republic of China
TechniqueBlown-molded, diamond-point engraved
SizeOverall H: 6.2 cm, W: 4.5 cm
Accession Number82.6.100
Credit LineBequest of Marian Swayze Mayer
Exhibitions
Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass
Not On View
Interpretive NotesPhysical DescriptionSnuff Bottle with Top (周鴻來刻白色涅玻璃鼻煙壺). Opaque white and blackened lead glass, gilt metal; blown-molded, diamond-point engraved. (a) Flattened, ovoid form, with short, cylindrical neck, ground for a stopper and spoon; sloping shoulders, rounded sides; recessed oval base; one face decorated in blackened, engraved scene of a bearded man leaning on a gnarled pine tree, standing amidst rocks at the left, a fence and bushes in the right background; the reverse with lengthy blackened diamond-point inscription in Chinese, in sixteen vertical columns; the base with three sets of blackened, diamond point Chinese characters “臥月轩 Wo Yue Xuan”. (b) Domed, gilt metal button top, with tiny rounded finial, with engraved radial foliage in two layers, with tiny rings at the edge; rounded rim; tapered gilded-paper wrapped metal shank with a tiny gilt-metal spoon on a thin, wire-like handle projecting from the center.
ProvenanceSource
Marian Swayze Mayer
(d. 1982) - 1981-12-22
