Chinese jade snuff bottle inscribed with calligraphy

An image of Snuff Bottle. Nephrite of even white colour incised with calligraphy consisting of four lines, each with five characters on both back and front. The stopper matching and original. The base is incised with the four-character seal mark of the Qianlong emperor. Nephrite, height 4.6 cm. Qianlong Period (1736-1795). Chinese.

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Snuff Bottle. Nephrite of even white colour incised with calligraphy consisting of four lines, each with five characters on both back and front. The stopper matching and original. The base is incised with the four-character seal mark of the Qianlong emperor. Nephrite, height 4.6 cm. Qianlong Period (1736-1795). Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.32.1 & A-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 661 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 283.98kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2008:03:05 12:13:20

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18th Century bottle calligraphic calligraphy characters Chinese Fitz_AA incised jade language lidded nephrite Qianlong Dynasty Qianlong Period script snuff snuff bottle stopper texts tobacco

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