Snuff Bottle: Inside Painted Bottle of TigersIn the late 19 and into the 20 century, the art of inside painted bottles was made popular by several famous artists and their apprentices. After the end of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970's, there was a resurgence of this art form. This uncommon shaped glass snuff bottle has a curve front and flat back form like a half moon. It is painted with a pair of tigers on one side and a single tiger on the other. The tigers are situated in a forest

Many floaters are often made out of agate or chalcedony

The white glass is an imitation of nephrite

It is well hollowed

A traditional Chinese ink painting is done on paper and a paper weight is a must have object

and the most important would be the spirit chair carried by four attendants

In the post 1970's

The short straight neck has a concave top

2 inches wide x 0

they potters fled south and found a place on the estuary of the the Pearl River

It is unsophisticated and probably made for the general public who used snuff and not for the gentry

as evident here by the orderly arrangement of wavy hair

They are symbols of wealth and riches