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Cylindrical Blue & White Underglaze Snuff Bottle

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« on: November 20, 2016, 05:09:13 am »

George, I see what you mean. Although both bottles in Joey's collection have different necks and lips they are more defined. Unfortunately, my bottle has a few frits right on the edge of the lip, which adds to the lack of the definition. If you look at the 2nd photo of my bottle in the original post the lip is a bit more defined as there are less frits there. Maybe, there are just various examples of these wide mouth bottles with various degrees of definition - not sure. Look at this one from the V&A:

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O9072/snuff-bottle-unknown/

Seems less definition then Joey's and more on a par with mine perhaps? Here's another pic of the mouth of my bottle - you can see the fritting I mention and the mouth of the bottle:

Dear Giovanni,

thanks for the info. I need to do some more reading on Chinese meanings and symbolism. I added a signature to avoid confusion Smiley



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