Shell-less

1870-1939
Height: 5.5 cm
Mouth/lip: 1.24 cm
Stopper: gilt-bronze chased with a formalized floral design

Provenance:
Ruth and Carl Barron, no. 4373
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 2017, lot 389

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles.  Part Two.  Non-Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

 

Metal foil and black lacquer; with a flat lip, foot and footrim; inlaid with various colours of metal foil with panels of butterflies and flowers on each main side surrounded by a series of circular medallions between formalized floral designs on the outer footrim and around the neck.

Alexander Whittaker