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Porcelain snuff bottle with fan-tailed fish on a blue ground

y1936-895
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Information

Object Number
y1936-895
Medium
Porcelain with enamels and molded designs
Dates

1790–1830

Dimensions
h. without stopper 6.7 cm., w. 5.2 cm., d. 2.9 cm. (2 5/8 x 2 1/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Culture
Chinese
Credit Line
Bequest of Col. James A. Blair
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
Qianlong four-character iron-red seal mark and possibly late in the period
Type
chinese ceramics styles, snuff bottles
Subject
seascapes, orange, blue, goldfishes

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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