Decorated snuff box

Made:: 1800-1910 in Japan

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Snuff bottle
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Snuff bottle, slender elongated pine cane shape in dark wood with pique decoration inlaid floral patterns, ivory mount stopper/applicator on chain, reputedly Japanese, 1800-1910 (Sir Henry William Peek Collection).

Details

Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A193794

Materials:: complete, wood, ivory and metal

Measurements:: overall: 249 mm
applicator, stopper: 47 mm 21 mm,
bottle: 96 mm

type:: snuff bottle

credit:: Glendining

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