How are snuff bottles made?

Qing Qianlong famille rose porcelain snuff bottles rolling road Xifanlian Snuff bottles are a traditional crafts, began in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Internal painting snuff bottles appeared in the end of the Jiaqing early Daoguang. It is painted with a special tiny hook-shaped brush inside a transparent pot. Initially, the inner painting snuff bottle is not frosted inside the transparent glass pot, because the inner wall is smooth, not easy to attach ink and color, can only draw some simple pictures and patterns, such as: grasshopper cabbages, phoenixes, dragons and sketchy figures, landscapes, etc., and later, artists with iron sand and adamantine sand and water in the inner surface of the snuff bottle back and forth shaking and grinding, which makes the inner wall of the snuff bottle is milky white frosted glass, delicate and not smooth, easy to attach ink and color, the effect is just like the ink, and the result is like a white glass. Attached to the ink color, the effect is like rice paper, the inner painting snuff bottles later appeared some of the finer works, and then later developed into poetry, calligraphy and painting and art boutique. Hengshui a pot Zhai Crafts Co., Ltd (former Hengshui City Special Crafts Factory) is the birthplace of the "Ji School" inside-painted snuff bottles. 1972 was founded. After the introduction of snuff into China, the Chinese first utilized traditional medicine bottles to hold snuff, and based on this, they utilized a variety of materials and production techniques to perfect the snuff container. In the process of using them, they found that this bottle with a small mouth and a big belly was better for storing snuff, ensuring that the snuff would not deteriorate in the long term, and that it was easy to carry around, with the traditional Chinese aesthetics, and was therefore favored by snuff smokers. In China's Qing Dynasty, down to the people, up to the emperor, sniffing snuff is very popular. The feudal aristocracy, led by the emperor, was so extravagant that the snuff bottles they used were often designed and manufactured for them by skilled craftsmen who collected valuable materials. In the international collectors believe that the snuff bottle is a collection of Chinese arts and crafts of the great achievements of the pocket art.