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Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies holding flowers with a crook

y1936-708
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Information

Object Number
y1936-708
Medium
Copper with enamels
Dates

1736–1795

Dimensions
5.8 x 3.8 x 2.1 cm h. without stopper 5.0 cm. (1 15/16 in.)
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
peking, snuff bottles, enameling
Subject
figures (representations), European, flowers (plants), books
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. 362, p. 263, illus.

1398 2002

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