Chinese Snuff Bottle

Agate?

 

Certainly meant to look like stone, but I'm getting the sense it is glass. Sophisticated glass, but glass. I'm finding the rhodonite body with almost tiger eye outer layers unnatural looking & the bottom strikes me as having been molded. We'll hear other ideas.

 

Interesting, did not think of glass at all because of all the colors and inclusions.
How can I tell for sure if glass or stone?

 

I may be quite wrong. Just when you think some color or color combination couldn't possibly occur in nature, you find out it can. These beads are supposed to be all the same stone & include both pink & brown ones:



You need @Hollyblue

 

It's hard to tell what it is from the photos,it could be a type of jasper. There also appears to be bubbles in a number of locations,but those may be dust spots...top rim of bottle.

 

I was having the same problem. On the bottom, at 9 o'clock, are those bubbles or just imperfections in the stone that were smoothed over? That ding on top, at noon, is very odd. Looks like a chip, & yet so smooth.

The Chinese are so phenomenally good & faking their own antiques & antiquities, not to mention those of neighboring countries, I rarely trust my judgment.

When she wakes up, let's ask @Any Jewelry She collects snuff bottles.

 

No bubbles, dust.

 

Glad you showed that. It pushes me toward stone.

 

It was probably carved in China,but hard to say where in the world the jasper came from.

 

While on the subject, I have another smaller bottle. Worse quality and softer stone. What it could be?

 

You need to compare notes with this seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/123709410405

 

Are you thinking of buying this? It's not like the one in the photos you posted, it's the same one. Or are you selling under another name now?

 

just listed on wife’s account.

 

No clue if it's glass or not but the colors on the bottom remind me of mookaite.

 

I'm with Holly, looks like some kind of jasper. Could be one of those specifically Chinese stones.

Slightly more interesting to a collector than the roughly carved glossy one. It has a hint of puddingstone, but could be serpentine.