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Snuff bottle with a Chinese lady and fan

Date1735-1796

Label TextImagery imitating Baroque art was common for snuff bottles in the Qianlong period, indicating the cultural exchange between 18th-century China and the West. A popular European motif was the “mother and child in a landscape”—the Chinese variation here shows a lady and her son playing with a fan in a garden.

Object number33.922

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Chinese Ceramics and Snuff Bottles from the Ming and Xing Dynasties, January 14, 2006 - April 2, 2006 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published ReferencesClysdale, Heather Colburn. The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society (Autumn 2008): p. 5. Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 49, reproduced fig. 5 and on cover.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions2 1/16 x 1 5/8 x 15/16 in. (5.2 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm) Overall h.: 2 5/16 in.

MediumGilt copper with some gold, and overglaze enamel decoration