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Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys

y1936-703
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Information

Object Number
y1936-703
Medium

Copper with enamels

Dates

1736–1795

Dimensions

5.7 x 3.9 x 2.2 cm

Culture

Chinese

Credit Line

Bequest of Col. James A. Blair

Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures

Qianlong four-character blue enamel mark and of the period

Type
snuff bottles, enamel, peking
Subject
figures (representations), children (people by age group), European, women
Materials
copper, enamel

Snuff bottle

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51575211

Michael C. Hughes, <em>The Blair Bequest: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum</em> (Baltimore: The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, 2002), cat. 357, p. 258, illus.

1398 2002

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