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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4053681, member: 2844&quot;]It is a Chinese provincial style bottle for either snuff or herbal remedies (often the same thing). The metal is base metal.</p><p>China makes a lot of these bottles with metal mounts, but this one is a little different from most. The Guanyin is a usual feature, but the rats or mouse aren&#039;t. The lotus bud stopper is also unusual.</p><p>There may have been a blue glass cab in the small circle on top of Guanyin&#039;s flames, to imitate turquoise.</p><p><br /></p><p>It shows influence from Himalayan herbal bottles, and could have been made in a region that has a Himalayan culture, or is pretty close to Himalayan culture.</p><p>The Guanyin figure has nothing to do with the Himalayas though, that is very Chinese. In Himalayan Buddhism it would be Chenrezi/Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva Guanyin is partly derived from.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Bodhisattva is a personification of a Buddha aspect, a single property of the celestial Buddha. With Avalokiteshvara/Chenrezi and Guanyin that aspect is compassion.</p><p><br /></p><p>All divinities, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can be seated on a lotus throne, it is a symbol of spiritual purity.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> In this case it is definitely Guanyin, since the figure is hooded and holding the vessel containing the nectar of life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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