Snuff bottle and stopper

Museum number:
9-8364a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21098364a@2cb
Description:
snuff bottle with coral stopper; blue glass with enamelled overlay of red-brown potted plants; 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
Materials:
Coral (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles and Snuff bottles
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff bottle and stopper, accession number 9-8364a,b, described as snuff bottle with coral stopper; blue glass with enamelled overlay of red-brown potted plants; 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

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