snuff bottle with stopper; crackled glaze ceramic bottle with blue painted landscape, boat; stopper is ivory with red and blue top; a) bottle; b) stopper; to hold snuff; at later times held perfume, medicine, etc. kept in sleeve of carrier, small bit spooned onto thumbnail of owner, snuffed into nostrils
Collection place:
China
Collection date:
1930s
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles and Snuff bottles
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1972-1973 #71: San Jose State University (March 23, 1973–April 13, 1973)