Antique Chinese Peking Glass Snuff Bottle

Item Details

An antique Chinese Peking glass snuff bottle. This piece features milky white glass construction with red glass overlay carved into decorative figures. Bottle has a metal lid with attached spoon and blue glass cabochon accent to top. There are indistinct characters on the spoon.

1938.0108.a – b

Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections

Condition

- wear consistent with age.
- small chips on edge of top surface

Dimensions

Item #

17COL077-174