Message #49842

[forestman]

Dear Joey and Tom,

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I've now added all the IP bottles to the list and so this represents the mouth openings of 1259 bottles.

The glass bottles show more consistency of sizes than the others in that the first 4 most common sizes in glass account for 32.4% of their total whilst they account for only 27.4% of the total for non glass bottles. There is also a much wider range of sizes of openings for non glass bottles.

Whilst 6mm is the most common opening for both glass and non glass bottles, the second most common opening for non glass bottles is 5mm which is only the sixth most common size for glass bottles.

The Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles tends to group similar bottles together and I was hoping to see some consistency but there really isn't much. There were 2 pebble bottles with 4mm openings but then the next ones varied. 2 Master of the Rocks bottles had the same openings but then they started to vary. There wasn't anything that I could find that would help in establishing any genuine old bottles or schools of carving etc.

Regards, Adrian.