Outlet The Met Store Qing Bottle Lotus Pond Drop Earrings

Unique, art-inspired gifts for her.

These stylish earrings reinterpret a late 18th–early 19th-century Chinese snuff bottle featuring a lustrous lotus pond motif. Snuff bottles such as this one in The Met collection were among the first glass objects forged at the Qing imperial workshops in China. They were originally produced for the emperor and his court in the early 18th century to preserve the precious potency of snuff, a mixture of finely ground tobacco leaves and aromatic herbs and spices. Soon, these small but spectacular vessels became coveted commodities themselves.  

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