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Copper snuff bottle decorated with leaf foliage and painted with European figures,
1736–1795
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Special Exhibition
<p>European figures are painted in famille rose enamels on these snuff bottles produced in the palace workshops in Beijing. During the Qianlong emperor’s reign objects depicting European women and children were popular. The blue, red, and orange-yellow palette likely derives from European enamels brought as gifts to the Chinese royal court from France and Switzerland. </p>
Information
1736–1795
Asia, China, Beijing
Snuff bottle with European lady and boy designs
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Cary Y. Liu, "Asian Art Collection: From Exotica to Art and History," in "An Art Museum for Princeton: The Early Years", special issue, <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 55, no. 1/2 (1996): 125–134., p. 127, fig. 4
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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. 96, p. 95, illus.
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Michael Cook, <em>A brief history of the human race</em>, (New York; London: W. W. Norton, 2003)., p. 233; fig. 21 (left)
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