About This Forum

This snuff bottle community forum is dedicated to the novice, more experienced, and expert collectors. Topics are intended to cover all aspects and types of bottle collecting. To include trials, tribulations, identifying, researching, and much more.

Among other things, donations help keep the forum free from Google type advertisements, and also make it possible to purchases additional photo hosting MB space.

Forum Bottle in the Spotlight

Charll shared this beautiful Xianfeng (1851-1861) dated bottle depicting NeZha combating the Dragon King amongst a rolling sea of blue and eight mythical sea creatures.


Chinese Snuff Bottle Discussion Forum 中國鼻煙壺討論論壇
April 19, 2024, 01:46:21 pm
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
  Home Help Search Contact Login Register  

Help needed on Child and Carp Carved Bottle

Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Help needed on Child and Carp Carved Bottle  (Read 429 times)
0 Members and 17 Guests are viewing this topic.
cshapiro
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 591
« on: August 31, 2016, 11:14:00 am »
Dear members,

I don't have access to my books at present, but I feel like I have seen this in a catalog before. Also I can't figure out what is written on the base. The auction house calls it a Zhoukun mark, but I have searched and can't figure out what that is? Is it a reign mark, an artist, a date? I have no idea.

I have also searched the possibility that it might be the name of a type of jade (Kun Lun) - which might be jade or serpentine. And then I have found references to a spiritual person named Zhou Kun online.

Any help you could give me on this piece would be most appreciated - including opinions on whether or not it fits the definition of a "real" snuff bottle.


* jadefish.jpg (87.35 KB, 603x1708 - viewed 51 times.)
« Last Edit: August 31, 2016, 11:15:33 am by cshapiro » Report Spam   Logged
Cathy

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
Private Boards
Hero Member
***
Gender: Male
Posts: 11301
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2016, 01:09:57 pm »
And we are back to the 'old' Cathy.  Sad
And you were doing so much better.   Sad
See how three of the four words before 'bottle' start with 'C'? So does the adjective I'd use to describe it.  Grin
Best,
Joey
Report Spam   Logged
Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970
George
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 11352


Test


WWW
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2016, 02:08:16 pm »
Pass on this one Cathy...  Wink
Report Spam   Logged
"Experience Each Experience To The Fullest To Obtain The Most Growth"

Snuff Bottle Journal
Luke
Private Boards
Sr. Member
***
Posts: 309
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2016, 02:54:12 pm »
Hi Cathy, I like decorative bottles and wouldn't mind if it was modern and I liked it enough, but this one isn't to my taste - each to their own:) Purely guessing, but the material to me looks like some kind of stone substance that's been ground and then mixed together and then maybe dyed.
Report Spam   Logged
Collecting snuff bottles since 2016
cshapiro
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 591
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2016, 04:03:34 pm »
Hahaha! That's why I asked!!!
Report Spam   Logged
Cathy
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal