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Description: | Snuff bottle in a flattened rectangular form with short neck, flattened rim and recessed base. The bottle is made of porcelain and painted with cobalt blue pigment under a clear glaze. The exterior is decorated on one side with eight figures on a landscape, among them a man is sitting on a kang table playing a pear-shaped pipa, or lute. The other side features a scene with three fishermen and two boats on a river. On the base are four characters, the 'Qianlong' mark, is written in a seal script in underglaze blue.
caption: General view of object no. nn15212. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Ceramics mineral pigment porcelain snuff bottles Pipes and smoking glaze Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-131425 | Go to resource |
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