S41 A smoky quartz “May you live into your seventies and eighties” snuff bottle

Description

Description:  Chinese smoky quartz snuff bottle of rounded squared form, carved with a cat gazing at a butterfly on one side and a willow and house landscape on the other side.

Foot/base:  Slotted oval base.

Mark:

Dating:  19^h century.

Material:  Quartz

Size:  72 mm high

Stopper:  Green jade stopper with silver collar and spoon.

Provenance:  See Provenance of the glass bottle G35

References:

Notes:  The hidden meaning of the cat and butterfly motif has been explained in the Notes of the inside painted snuff bottle IP12. It stands for “May you live into your seventies and eighties”.