Snuff bottle, painted with fish amid aquatic plants

An image of Snuff bottle. Quartz chalcedony carved on the sides with mask and mock ring handles and painted inside with fish swimming amid aquatic plants, signed 'Ye Zhongsan', dated 1918. The bottle is 1760-1880. Chinese.

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Snuff bottle. Quartz chalcedony carved on the sides with mask and mock ring handles and painted inside with fish swimming amid aquatic plants, signed 'Ye Zhongsan', dated 1918. The bottle is 1760-1880. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.179 & A-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Photographer name: Image Library
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 90.06kB
Captured: 2007:11:30 11:00:17

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Chinese Department Fitz_AA Material Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_Adtd _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_batch_15 aquatic bottle chalcedony fish glass malachite painted quartz snuff bottle

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