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Date unknown · Murrhina agate with coral stopper · Asian Art
Painting inside snuff bottles was a novel development in the nineteenth century. With an angled bamboo pen, the artist worked through the narrow opening of a bottle’s mouth to paint pictures or write calligraphy on its interior walls.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Murrhina agate with coral stopper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921
