Snuff Bottle (Tiger and Deer)

Name/Title

Snuff Bottle (Tiger and Deer)

Description

Snuff bottle with a creamy top with brown marble aesthetic. The base of the bottle is white mixed in with blue and grey ink depicting what appears to be a tiger investigating a deer. A porcelain snuff bottle, of cylindrical form, decorated in underglaze blue and red with a deer and a tiger on a grassy bank looking up at a dragon flying through scrolling clouds 圓柱形瓷鼻煙壺, 草岸上有鹿和老虎, 仰望一條龍飛過雲彩. 1870-1920

Made/Created

Time Period

Late Qing Dynasty

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bottle, Snuff

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Container, Snuff

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Smoking & Recreational Drug Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Personal Gear

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Snuff Bottle

Dimensions

Height

1-1/4 in

Width

3-5/8 in

Depth

1-1/4 in