#snuff bottle

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Glass snuff bottle with green overlay carved with cricket and squirrel.

Date: 1800–1880

Culture: Chinese

Period: Qing dynasty

Medium: Glass with carved green overlay

[desimonewayland]

A fine puddingstone snuff bottle with a matching dish, 1750-1860

Bonham's

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday :

Chalcedony double-carp snuff bottle

China, Qing dynasty, 1820–1880

Carved chalcedony with glass

h. with stoppers 7.2 cm, diam. 5.5 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.)

Princeton University Art Museum y1936-675

[thatshowthingstarted]

A white jade double gourd form snuff bottle, Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

2⅞ in (7.3 cm) high, jade stopper.

[xanaxfarts]

‘Snuff bottles’ crafted from Chinese Jade (18th century)

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique Chinese Red Overlay Peking Glass Snuff Bottle - Carved Horse Scene EBAY ejgreen76

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Snuff bottle, 1975, China.

[meisterdrucke]

Not the vase. Forget the vase for a moment. Look left. That small snuff bottle - the ochre one, squat and warm, capped in red. It sits below the towering Kangxi porcelain like a whispered aside in a cathedral. Emil Carlsen placed it there knowing what it would do: pull heat into a composition that runs cool. Without it, "Still Life, Chinese Vase, 1922" is a study in blue and shadow. With it, the whole painting exhales. That dab of amber-gold rewires your eye. The blue reads bluer. The dark bottle on the right sinks deeper into its own shadow. Temperature enters the room. Carlsen - Danish-born, trained in Copenhagen, transplanted to America - spent decades studying Chardin with near-obsessive focus, even copying his work in Paris. He understood that a still life breathes through its smallest object, never its largest. Everything monumental in this oil on panel exists to serve something the size of your thumb. Look again. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com