any idea about the period of the snuff box

Guys any idea about the period of make of this snuff box. is it a some kind of replica??

 

It is a Chinese snuff bottle from the second half of the 20th century.
The red material is resin, made to resemble Chinese cinnabar lacquer. The spoon is plastic. The bottom probably has an imitation Qianlong imperial mark.
This one was never used as a snuff bottle, but made as a pretty souvenir or for export.

 

Hey thanks a lot. Any Jewelry how to identify the cinnabar lacquer from the resin. What does the spoon made of in snuff boxes actually made in Qianlong period??
Yes you are true it truly consist of imitation Qianlong imperial mark

 

Further by any chance what would a original snuff bottle bottom marks would look like??

 

Never mind about the marks, first thing to do is get the right bottle.
That is down to experience with the age of materials, styles, etc. About 99% of the bottles you see now are either replicas, fakes, or souvenir type bottles, often with imitation marks.
Modern isn't bad, there are some beautiful newly made inside painted glass bottles by renowned artists. Those are expensive, because you pay for a work of art.
The question is, do you want to study Chinese snuff bottles? Because that is what you have to do to get the right ones.
Here are nice sites with info on the real thing:
https://www.burghley.co.uk/collections/category/exhibitions/chinese-snuff-bottles/
https://snuffbottlesociety.org/
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20211/

This is a site with Qing imperial porcelain marks:
http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/qingmarks.shtml
But as with all Chinese porcelain, etc., most marks are fake.

 

Hey thanks at any jewelry. those links were interesting.

 

Resin snuff bottle, new stuff.
I saw lots of chinese resin bottles auctioned in famous auction houses online. It is bad. I feel shame about it.

 

For the collectors, we need to know what are really arts and how to appreciate arts.
If we just focus on how much they worth and how old they are, we are businessmen instead of collectors.

 

And it is the easiest thing in the world to recognize resin snuff bottles. Famous auction houses employ experts who have studied art history, materials, etc. I don't understand it at all.

When I started collecting, I bought a stack of second hand books on famous collections, like the Hugh Moss book on the collection of the marquess of Exeter. It is still one of my reference books. And I studied the materials, the natural wear and aging. If I can do it, the experts of famous auction houses certainly can.

 

Yes I believe they can. What about if there's any incentives of their own? Such as: the family members or friends of their appraisers consign several finely reproduced replicas once after awhile. It is a kind of industry rules.

 

Do you think that's what happens? Wouldn't there be some kind of supervision?

 

Asian antiques of any variety are easy to get burned on. Approach them with GREAT caution. Unless you absolutely know EVERYTHING about a subject - and that's extremely rare - assume that anything you buy isn't what you think it really is.