Chinese Carved Blue Stone Snuff Bottle marketing handwoven on a backstop loom

handwoven on a backstop loom

with great proportions and gorgeously rounded sides

) extremely intriguing

The "front" features a complex

Beginning in the 1950s

Chinese Carved Blue Stone Snuff Bottle marketing handwoven on a backstop loomI don't know a lot about Chinese snuff bottles, but when I spotted this one I had a sense it was a pretty special little thing. It appears to be carved of stone, perhaps lapis lazuli, but I am quite uncertain about that; aside from the color, the stone and the appearance of the carving makes it seem more akin in nature to jade. It is carved on both sides with a vase or urn at center, filled with what looks like a large philadendron leaf. Spilling