Posted 2 years ago
Christinas…
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Just a cool antique find in my collection it is a resin snuff bottle hand carved with brass base and brass around snuff bottle lid. I'm not sure which dynasty but nevertheless I thought it was pretty cool for hand carved. I guess I'm going to label this as a mystery because the value is a mystery and as well as which a dynasty is a mystery and to be honest what it's made out of I'm not sure if it's Ivory, porcelain, or Jade hard to tell.
it is a fake , but you can the hot needle test of you want
There is a test for carved lacquer - the hot needleIf you heat up a pin and stick it into real carved lacquer it will smell likea pine tree. If you stick it into plastic, it will smell like burnt plastic. so beware hot plastic drips and hurts
Real carved lacquer is layer on layer grind regrind dehydration, and damo = sandblasting
It can be identified by looking closely for those concentric layers through the carving designs.
striouter bottom rim machine made
They are readily visible on shallowly carved oblique angles. Once you see a piece of real carved lacquer, you will easliy recognize it from then on.
Modern reproductions are most often molded - so look for very tiny air bubbles in the design. Real carved lacquer never has air bubbles.
expensive qianlong nianzhi abbreviated , actually , they appear DA QING !!!!! qianlong nian zhi which means Great Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Made
not allaowed to talk value here
cute snuffbottle
https://m.bonanza.com/items/like/1059785228/chinese-resin-snuff-bottle-no-lid-very-ornate-
I'll try the hot needle test and give you the results on if it is fake or real...thanks
Well I did the hot needle test and the results nothing melted. I also had my husband do it again just to be sure and he took out his magnifying glass to get a better look no melting or smells of plastic but I do agree that it is fake machine made and molded.