Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Canton copper bodied snuff bottle decorated with figures in a garden

Chinese
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
1736–95

Medium/Technique Copper with overglaze enamels
Dimensions 7 x 4.7 cm (2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sarah Buchan Jewell
Accession Number1991.200
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsDecorative arts

ProvenanceEmpress Dowager Cixi (b. 1835 - d. 1908), Qing Dynasty, China; from Empress Dowager Cixi to Edwin Conger, first U.S. Ambassador to Imperial China and his wife Sarah Conger; by descent to their granddaughter Sarah Buchan Jewell (Mrs T. Edson Jewell), Boston; 1991, gift of Sarah Buchan Jewell to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 27, 1991)