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Subject:Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Stan Shursky Sat, Jan 14, 2006 IP: 24.128.65.179 I was disappointed to learn that our other snuff bottles were of recent vintage. I rummaged through our collection for something that looked like it had some "age" to it. |
Subject:Re: Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Anthony M. Lee Sat, Jan 14, 2006 The yellow to me looks late 19th century, as does the heavy use of purples and mauve (Tony Allen may have a better opinion on this than me). Modled body porcelain snuffs like this are fairly common and the overglaze copper red QL mark would suggest the same late 19th century dating to early 20th century, even into republican. The cover is poorly done and looks 20th century to me, but that does not affect the dating. |
Subject:Re: Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Stan Shursky Sun, Jan 15, 2006 Anthony, |
Subject:Re: Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Anthony J Allen Tue, Jan 17, 2006 Coincidentally, only yesterday I extracted photos from our files of three similar snuff bottles, which are to be illustrated in a forthcoming book. They are too large format to post here. |
Subject:Re: Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Phillip Adams Thu, Jan 19, 2006 Stan, tne "monks" depicted on your snuff bottle are the Buddhist Luohans. The number of Luohans varied sometimes being 10, 16, 18, or even 500. |
Subject:Re: Bhudda & Monks Snuff Bottle
Posted By: Stan Shursky Thu, Jan 19, 2006 Anthony, |
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