A Mongolian-style Baitong snuff bottle

1880 – 1900
Height: 5.4 cm. including stopper

Baitong with coral inlay, modeled in the form of a flask in Mongolian-style, the original stopper held by a chain running from one shoulder of the bottle to the other.

Baitong is an alloy composed of zinc and tin. For a similar example, see Marcos C. O. Tang, The Dr. Marcos C. O. Tang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles (Taipei: 1993), cat. no. 8.9.

Provenance 起源: Linda F. Crawley

Published 发布: Asiantiques, A Fascination for Miniatures: The Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff (2008), cat. no. 109

Ref. 817829

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