Hair Crystal Snuff Bottle

Quartz; crystal, transparent, interspersed throughout with densely packed black tourmaline needles, of the variety known as 'hair crystal'; the well-hollowed bottle of rectangular form sitting on a neat oval footrim.

Chinese, 1780-1850
Stopper: tourmaline on a yellow glass collar with a jade finial
Provenance: Neal and Frances Hunter Collection
Richard Marchant, 2000

This bottle is well hollowed and has an attractive even spread of tourmaline needles.