Snuff Bottle with Vine

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This piece has a design carved in flat relief.

Conservation

Cleaned in preparation for exhibition.

Date	Description	Narrative
3/08/2016	Treatment	Cleaned

Exhibitions

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

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters

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Creator

Chinese (Artist)

Period

19th century

Medium

agate
(Stone)

Accession Number

41.191

Measurements

H with stopper: 2 1/2 × W: 2 × D: 1 1/4 in. (6.4 × 5.1 × 3.1 cm); Bottle H: 2 3/16 × W: 2 × D:1 1/4 in. (5.5 × 5.1 × 3.1 cm); Stopper diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)

Geographies

China (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Charles Street: Second Floor: 18th- and 19th-Century Treasury