Snuff bottle

CultureChinese

Date1940

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 4 × 3 × 2 inches (10.16 × 7.62 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Loomis family in memory of Mary Gary Loomis

Object numberF98-32/156

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Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionLarge bulbous bottle inside painted in a continuous scene with a scholar riding on a donkey across a bridge with an attendant and with a farmer cultivating land underneath trees, made in Peking in the spring of 1940, Shau Shoo Po, Middle School.

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