Vintage Mid 20th Cent. Chinese Snuff Bottle, order Carved Ombre-Striped Fluorite Stone, Vivid Blue Fluorite Top!

It is hard to date a plain, unadorned snuff bottle of fluorite; Rhodonite was not in China til the mid 20th century; but fluorite...? Been around forever; this could be hundreds of years old, order or from the 1920's. The Chinese were very fond of a beautiful stone, and often the prettiest stone snuff bottles are like this one,
smooth and unadorned.

This is a perfectly lovely piece of ombre-striped fluorite, selected for its beautiful bands, especially of blue, which is a rarer tone. The lid has a gemmy deep-blue band of color. The bottle is well hollowed, which indicates that it was made for actual use, and therefore is earlier than the mid-20th Cent.

If you are not into stones, be assured that this is undamaged; in one pic you will see internal fractures, occurring while the rock was in formation. This is a very nice snuff bottle!

Please see all pics, and ask any questions. Thanks for looking! Betsy