Categories: Chinese Snuff Bottles at Burghley | Chinese Works of Art | Exhibitions |

A quartz snuff bottle, Chinese, 1780-1880.

The ovoid bottle is of hair crystal.

The body is suffused with dense black tourmaline needles, with green and white inclusions, which have been skilfully carved to depict a stork resting beside lotus, 5.5cm.

REFERENCE: CSBQ.6

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