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During the collection of ancient Chinese snuff bottles, you can choose to collect glass, porcelain, bottles made from organic materials (such as amber or coral), or perhaps the inside painted bottles, but is sure to be a time when we decided to pick up, or at least add a few bottles of hard stone.
Bottles Hardstone can be found in a variety of materials such as jade, quartz, agate, crystal hair, tourmaline and many more. There are some beautiful shapes and colors to find and even some stone bottles have pictures or photos, formed from natural inclusions found in the rock.
When considering sales catalogs now and then met in the description of the old stone bottles, the comment â € ~ Hollowed € ™ as well as during the review of the bottles with a distributor of this term is also used. When this comment is do not worry, because all the bottles of good rock where a € ~ ™ € Hollowed well and if not under suspicion when they are not!
Chinese antique snuff boxes were made to be used and had to be excavated, so keep the snuff enough, This raises the question of the amount of extraction is â € ~ well Hollowed € ™? Most good antique bottles are considered well dug if the bottle instead most of snuff and snuff not feel too heavy. Remember, as a guide, often used on the sleeve. But the most beautiful gemstones snuff exceptionally be extended to the point that often seems to have flown (like glass). These elements are designated by the letters A Thina Eggshell € ~ € ™ or â € ~ Floaters € ™, because even if it were engraved in a rock are fine hollow floating in the water!
These stone bottles are examples of amazing skill, because all the excavations are held through a small hole in the neck of the bottle. Even areas we call the shoulder of the bottle (which are the most difficult areas of air sufficient to dig), must be very thin for the bottle to trap floating.
Here below are some wonderful bottles floating jade, but jade is one of the most difficult to carve the stone is not only extremely hard material, but also has some shortcomings that can easily fracture.
After showing a couple of bottles (one hole and the other not) lapidary workers, equipped with as that most modern cutting and drilling tools, to see if they could change the hollow cylinder in a well dug bad one and what cost. Nobody would have the task and feel consensus was that, even if they tried, the cost would be significant because of the weather, yes, but nobody wanted to take the risk, possibly ruining the bottle in the process!
The explanation of how these ancient stone bottles were originally carved and dug so well, were up years of experience and work slow of love, where the carver did everything by hand, without thinking of the time it took.
About the Author:
John N. Cohen A past director of Jacey Cinemas Ltd. Later the proprietor of a design & photographic studio, now a director of Jacey Homes Ltd., a property development company. Interests and Hobbies: A top international award winning photographer who also became a well known Asian antiques collector and an enthusiast of Jensen British classic cars. Other interests are skiing and Salsa dancing.
For John’s other interests please have a look at: - http://www.jncohen.net
The author has been a very keen collector for many years helping to create ‘The Cohen collection’.
See photographs by using the following link: -
http://www.jncohen.net/antiques/articles.htm
For more information about antique Chinese snuff bottles please use the following link: -
http://www.jncohen.net/Chinese_Snuff_bottles/index.htm
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