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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 224529, member: 2844"]I bought this little darling because of that beautiful cobalt blue.The seller called it 'a Persian snuff bottle', probably because of the Persian-like cobalt and the shape and size of the bottle, reminiscent of Chinese snuff bottles. It is 5.5 cm / 2.16" high. I don't recognize this as a Chinese snuff bottle, of which I have a few hundred.The swirls are probably a feature of a lot of molded glass. So far I have looked at Persian glass, Syrian glass, fake Chinese 'Roman glass', nothing like it.The seller lives in a part of The Netherlands with a strong connection to the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and sells a lot of Indonesian antiques that came to this country with returned or resettled families. I don't know of any bottle like this from Indonesia, but the swirls do remind me of Javanese jatim glass.It is very tactile, feels like it has been handled for centuries.Any ideas of origin, period and use? Perfume bottle? If Middle Eastern, it could also be a kohl bottle.Thanks for looking.[ATTACH=full]66795[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66796[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66797[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66798[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66799[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66800[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66801[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]66802[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]