Unidentified
Snuff Box Decorated with Chinese Figural Scenes
1834-1864
Scroll
Unidentified
Snuff Box Decorated with Chinese Figural Scenes
1834-1864
Physical Qualities
Silver, gold, 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 1 7/8 in. (2 × 7 × 4.8 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.391
The top decorated with 6 figures, from left to right: an elderly gentleman riding a horse, a boy holding a peach in his outstretched hand in the arms of a woman riding a cow(?), an old man pushing a wheelbarrow, a woman with a fan, and a porter carrying boxes across a rock bridge; a pavilion in the upper left and a pine tree in the upper right with three young animals seated in the foreground.
The sides of the box are decorated with figures in landscapes.
The bottom is decorated with a mounted soldier, footmen carrying knives and spears chasing a poacher(?) with a deer and two small animals fleeing.
The interior gold-washed.
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs, Baltimore, MD.
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Maker
Unidentified
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
