Snuff bottle

Mongolian Collection

Accession Nr.: 57.12.1-2
Type: object for daily use; metalwork; snuff bottle
Date of production:
second half of the 19th century
Place of production:
Materials: brass; iron
Dimensions: height: 8.2 cm
Decorative open-work iron snuff bottle (Khalkha: xȫrög) with brass interior and a brass socket for the stopper. In the openwork flower, tendril and cobalt decorations, as well as below and above them, there is an engraved leaf vein pattern. There are small brass studs in the two central flowers. The stopper ends in a bead-like hemisphere.