Snuff Bottle with Pair of Dragons

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This bottle has been adapted for snuff with a very wide neck plus a matching stopper with a large cork and shovel-shaped ivory spoon. The vase itself is of iron-red decoration on a white ground and illustrates a pair of dragons seeking the flaming pearl. It is nicely exceuted. In this case, the pearl is in the stopper, original to the bottle.

Exhibitions

Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 2000-2001.
Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2018.

Provenance Mrs. Marvin E. Gantz, Sr., Denver, Colorado [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Shirley E. Gantz, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1999, by gift.

Credit Gift of Shirley E. Gantz, from the collection of Mrs. Marvin E. Gantz, Sr., 1999

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Creator

Chinese (Ceramicist)

Period

19th century (Ch'ing)

Medium

ceramic, cork, ivory
(Ceramics)

Accession Number

49.2768

Measurements

Overall H: 2 7/8 × Diam: 1 3/8 in. (7.3 × 3.5 cm); Bottle H: 2 11/16 × Diam: 1 3/8 in. (6.9 × 3.5 cm); Stopper H: 2 3/8 × Diam: 13/16 in. (6.1 × 2.1 cm)

Geographies

China (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View