A quartz, agate and crystal, plain snuff bottle, well hollowed, with a carnelian & pearl stopper.

B3

Quartz, agate and crystal, russet and red in a starburst crystalline natural mineral formation, each layer accentuated in creamy white; the bottle of gently rounded form.

Chinese, 1750-1860
Stopper: pale orange carnelian with a pearl finial
Provenance: Hugh Moss Ltd, London
Exhibited: Hugh Moss Chinese Snuff Bottle Exhibition 1974.
Height: 5.7cm

There is a lot of movement in this snuff bottle, creating unusual and exciting electric dimensions suggestive of the massive natural upheavals millions of years ago required to form the mineral.  The starburst formation evokes a powerful firework exploding in the sky.