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Subject:Ivory snuff bottle China or Japan
Posted By: Vincent Mon, Aug 29, 2022 IP: 37.222.5.158 I bought this snuff bottle at an auction house. It’s dated around 1900 and according to auction houses it’s from China. |
Subject:Re: Ivory snuff bottle China or Japan
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Aug 31, 2022 The base has an apocryphal mark of Qianlong and the bottle appears to be Chinese. However, ivory is a material sacred to Chinese and would not be painted over or overlaid with transfer decoration like this. The material here is unlikely to be ivory but a synthetic in my opinion. |
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