Green Orbicular Jasper Snuff BottleJasper bottles hold great interest, they all have beautiful colors and patterns. The interesting appearance of this flattened globular shape snuff bottle is due to its properties as an orbicular jasper. It is made up of silicified rhyolite or tuff, quartz and feldspar crystallize in aggregates of needle like crystals. When highly polished, it is very attractive as in this bottle. Its many common names are related to the formation of the aggregates,

The almost solid red jasper snuff bottle is of a flattened rectangular shape with rounded shoulders and base tapering to a short raised foot

Date: 1920's

The evidence of antiquity can be seen on the green glaze

Pretty painted porcelain garden seats from Jingdezhen with bird and flower designs or simple ones glazed in rich flambe glazes from Shiwan

The fish is a symbol of plenty

his dates were 1911 to 1955

and it is even harder to do a "snow" job inside a glass bottle that has been frosted by a treatment of acid

there are hairline cracks along the mouth rim

Edge of the base is sharp

The round foot rim is left plain

This well painted snuff bottle

the lines created by the slopes lead the eye to the center with a figure about to descend on the snowy steps