1920.44.108.A-B: Moon-Flask Shaped Snuff Bottle with Silver Cover
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.108.A-B
- Title
- Moon-Flask Shaped Snuff Bottle with Silver Cover
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 19th Century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/210123
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Agate with brown and gray mottles; silver cover
- Dimensions
- H. 6.3 x W. 4.4 cm (2 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.108.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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