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Message:: [QUOTE="Pat P, post: 93935, member: 201"]Unfortunately, I don't know the provenance, other than it was in with my mother's things. During the 1980s-1990s, the area where she lived in Queens, NY, had such a large influx of people from China and other Asian countries that by the early 2000s, most storefronts and restaurants had signs that weren't in English. My mother frequented antique shops and shows, as well as flea markets, so it's possible the snuff bottle belonged to a local Asian family and found its way to a place where my mother shopped. Assuming Taupou is right about it being misfired... which I suspect is right... I wonder if it stayed in the same family for a long time and then became part of a dispersed estate? Perhaps had even been in the potters own family? But obviously, I'll never know. This is why I love antiques, but also why it drives me crazy sometimes from wanting to know the stories behind things....[/QUOTE]