IDENTIFIERS
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id:	168782
accession number:	MAR.O.283 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 16 February 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Quartz crystal painted inside with an equestrian traveller and attendant in snowy landscape, the reverse with travellers outside a lodge in snowy landscape. Signed 'Ye Zhongsan', dated 1906.  The poem on the glass can be translated as:
"The stone bridge slopes because of the wind and snow all day
This old fellow is riding on a donkey and looking for an inn
His world isloated from the war outside
And goes to the see the plum flowers on the Wolong Gang"
title:	snuff bottle

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168782





TECHNIQUES
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painting

CATEGORIES
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category: snuff bottles

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1880
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1880
culture:	Qing Dynasty

CREATORS
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maker: Ye, Zhongsan

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.9

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5



CITATIONS
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Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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