Chinese Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle with Figures and Immortals
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Chinese inside painted snuff bottle and stopper, of facetted form, one side painted with figures and horse, the other with immortals and lines of script, height 8 cm the collection of the Late Dr Alexander Yu Fu Pau
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- Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
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