Production: Unknown
Chalcedony of dark honey colour with a beige inclusion carved as a hawk perched on a beast. (The design was probably intended as a pun on the characters 'hawk' and 'bear' which are homophones with 'brave' and 'strong'.)
Cecil E. Byas Bequest
Height: 5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
Qing Dynasty
1760
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1860
Accession number: O.32.3 & A-1938
Primary reference Number: 168890
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Snuff bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168890 Accessed: 2024-11-05 10:59:27
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