Chinese glass snuff bottle with famille rose enamels

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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