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Chinese glass snuff bottle with famille rose enamels

Image attached to O.50 & A-1936

An image of Snuff bottle. Decorated with a continuous scene of birds amid peony blossoms and perched in a gnarled tree. Glass with famille rose enamels in red, orange, and yellow tones imitating realgar, height 6.2 cm, 1730-1850. Chinese. Qing Dynasty (1644-1912).

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Snuff bottle. Decorated with a continuous scene of birds amid peony blossoms and perched in a gnarled tree. Glass with famille rose enamels in red, orange, and yellow tones imitating realgar, height 6.2 cm, 1730-1850. Chinese. Qing Dynasty (1644-1912).

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  • Accession Number: O.50 & A-1936
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 683 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 347.65kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2008:03:04 11:00:34

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18th Century 19th Century AD birds bottle Chinese enamel enamelled famille rose Fitz_AA floral flowers glass green insects lidded Paeoniaceae paeony peonies peony praying mantis Qing Dynasty snuff bottle

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rgb(15,137,65), rgb(220,221,220), rgb(149,67,67), rgb(129,163,140), rgb(42,34,13), rgb(175,128,128), rgb(172,187,176), rgb(150,114,94), rgb(167,175,154), rgb(96,204,156), rgb(192,174,172)

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