Message #50683

[forestman]

Dear Joey,

You made a point that I was going to make in that the Chinese had Goldstone available to them and well before the mid 19th Century as it was one of the processes they were keen to copy from gifts presented to them from Foreigners.

As I understand it, Japanese art initially stemmed from Chinese art before the Japanese then started developing their own style of art. I think it may be unlikely that the Chinese would adopt a Japanese style on an item, a snuff bottle, that was so Chinese in origin.

However, the Japanese were very capable of copying a Chinese style to produce copies of snuff bottles for foreigners as well as producing them in their own artistic style. So there is a possibility that any Chinese style cloisonné snuff bottle could be  produced in Japan but far less likelihood that a Japanese style bottle was made in China.

Regards, Adrian.