Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys

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European Art

Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys,

1736–1795

Chinese
Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign period , Beijing, 1736–1795
y1936-703

Information

Title
Copper snuff bottle painted with European ladies and boys
Dates

1736–1795

Medium
Copper with enamels
Dimensions
5.7 x 3.9 x 2.2 cm
Credit Line
Bequest of Col. James A. Blair, Class of 1903
Object Number
y1936-703
Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription
Imperial mark in blue on base
Marks/Labels/Seals
Qianlong four-character blue enamel mark and of the period
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qianlong
Type
snuff bottles, enamel, peking
Materials
enamel, copper
Subject
children (people by age group), figures (representations), women, European

Colonel James A. Blair (d. 1934), by 1934; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1936.

Snuff bottle

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