Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

Snuff bottle with flowers and rocks

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This snuff bottle displays an opaque white background and poetic inscriptions on its back, which, together with a shared use of enamel, reflects the ties between the glass workshops in Beijing and the kilns at Jingdezhen. Visually, it resembles a small group of eighteenth-century imperial white porcelain with fine enamel painting combining painting and poem. Such porcelains were painted at the court in Beijing rather than at the Jingdezhen kilns farther south.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.