Snuff Bottle with Luohans [Lohans]

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This snuff bottle is decorated with the 18 Buddhist Luohans [Lohans].

Exhibitions

Netsuke: Miniature Sculpture of Japan. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1978.
Snuff Bottles. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint. 1979.
Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2018.

Provenance Edward Choate O'Dell, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, September, 1977, by gift.

Credit Gift of Edward Choate O'Dell, 1977

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Creator

Ye Zhangsan (Chinese, active 1892-1912) (Artist)

Period

1898

Medium

rock crystal with interior painting, ivory (?), silver-plated copper with silver filigree, faux granulation, coral, turquoise
(Glasswares)

Accession Number

47.585

Measurements

Overall H: 3 1/16 × W: 2 5/16 × D: 1 1/4 in. (7.7 × 5.9 × 3.1 cm); Bottle H: 2 5/8 × W: 2 5/16 × D: 1 1/4 in. (6.6 × 5.9 × 3.1 cm); Stopper H: 1 × Diam: 11/16 in. (2.5 × 1.7 cm)

Geographies

China (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Charles Street: Second Floor: Chinese Snuff Bottles