snuff bottle

Object NameSnuff Bottle with Stopper

Made FromGlass, Ivory, Cork

Date1800-1911

Place MadeChina

Techniqueblown, cased, cameo-carved

SizeOverall H: 7 cm, W: 4.6 cm

Accession Number82.6.18

Credit LineBequest of Marian Swayze Mayer

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Glass Snuff Bottles of China at Steuben Glass

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

白套双色玻璃竹篓式鼻烟壶

Physical DescriptionSnuff Bottle with Stopper. Opaque white, red, aventurine-green glass; blown, cased and cameo-carved. (a) Ovoid form, with short neck ending in a disk-shape rim with red and green layers at the rim, cut tapering small hole in the top for a stopper and spoon; sloping shoulders; rounded sides covered with a carved red band with incised allover pattern of hexagonal cells, a pattern in imitation of bamboo basket; green handles at the sides at the top, relief-carved figure of a man in a stylized boat on one face, a man pulling a mule on the other, with flying bird and bat on the sides; green and red foot ring. (b) Domed form, red-orange on white, with a tiny ivory button top; tapered cork shank with ivory spoon, with long slender handle and oval bowl.
Provenance

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