Message #43635

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Pin,

     If they are 40-50 years old, that is the period of the [anti-]Cultural Revolution. I know of a superbly carved pale mushroom coloured chalcedony snuff bottle, which my close friend B.W. in NYC owns.
 
     I would have sworn it was 18th C., but it has a landscape with a power station and power lines on it, and incised calligraphy with quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong! It was made as a gift for a special 'Foreign Friend' of the PRC.

     But if there is no CR connection, I'd doubt it was made between 1966-1976 (ie., 40-50 years ago).
Best,
Joey

Hi Cathy :

Both the bottles are not too bad IMO, esp the first bottle. I do have a bottle that probably came from the same source which have my birth year carved.....so if the year on the bottle is correct......I would think that these bottle should be somewhere 40-50 years old I guess 

Pin