Snuff Bottle

81-23-137A

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 81-23-137A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Date Made ca. 1890
Section Asian
Materials Glass
Iconography Poem | Landscape | Cricket | Butterfly | Cabbage
Description

A white glass inside painted bottle (a) with overlay of red glass. One side has a hill and valley landscape with a poem, and the other side is a painting of a cricket eating a cabbage and a butterfly. The stopper (b) is made of agate.

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Addams, 1981

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