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Subject:Chinese Ruby- Red Overlay Dragon With Flaming Pearl Snuff Bottle- Incised Mark
Posted By: Kevin Donnelley Sat, May 20, 2017 IP: 69.120.62.142
Hello,

A finely carved ruby red overlay of a dragon and flaming pearl on both main sides with incised reign mark. I am hoping someone will be able to decipher the mark for me.
Ht: 2 7/16"; 6.2 cm

thank you for looking kind regards

Kevin







Subject:Re: Chinese Ruby- Red Overlay Dragon With Flaming Pearl Snuff Bottle- Incised Mark
Posted By: Kevin Donnelley Mon, May 22, 2017
Mark highlighted in yellow which may help in deciphering the characters



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Subject:Re: Chinese Ruby- Red Overlay Dragon With Flaming Pearl Snuff Bottle- Incised Mark
Posted By: Stan Tue, May 23, 2017
It looks new and unused for its intended purpose - to contain snuff. I think a clear glass bottle full of snuff would be ugly. Our glass bottles that appear to have some age and contain snuff residue are all opaque.

Cheers,
Stan



Subject:Re: Chinese Ruby- Red Overlay Dragon With Flaming Pearl Snuff Bottle- Incised Mark
Posted By: Kevin Donnelley Wed, May 24, 2017
Thank you Stan,
The ruby glass bottle has a brownish stain to the interior from use, but more importantly the size is correct for use as a snuff bottle. W/the dragon having four claws rather than five with the mark, leads me to believe the bottle has genuine age, otherwise, if a copy a dragon of five claws might be expected to show greater importance/ value as meant for imperial use
W/regrets, I can say the snowflake bottle is recent- as the finer snowflake patterns are found in the older examples.
The shapes and patterns on the other 2 that you have are also commonly found on the recent examples

Best,

Kevin

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