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A multicolored diasper bottle

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« on: November 24, 2014, 02:36:52 pm »

Dear Richard,
thank you. I didn’t know before of your blog, a nice one and good to know about it.
Dear David, I am relatively new in collecting snuff bottles. I am not a real collector in the common sense, first of all because I can’t invest money on that. I have a small collection and slowly it may grow, provided that I find a bottle that has some requirements, which mainly are: 1) not expensive, 2) a real bottle, i.e. made for use and not exclusively for display except in some cases, and 3) not new. There are other desired features that I like and, if there, are very appreciated: Chinese taste, artistic merit, artisan’ skill, particular materials, etc.
About this bottle in particular, I bought it together with other things at an Antique fair from the same seller. The price was low, I had no similar bottles in my collection, so I bought it. Anyway, it is an honest bottle, I by far prefer this simple bottles, with pure shape intended for use, instead of fantasy  modern bottles that has nothing to do with the traditional Chinese art. In other words, what we in the West call chinoiserie. 
And yes, hard materials like jade can also exhibit wear, it all depends of use.
Kind regards
Giovanni
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