What is a snuff bottle for?

Snuff is a kind of tobacco products, the system will be baked, stem, powder, fermentation and add spices formulated, with the nose sniffing service. Snuff began to popularize in Europe in the 17th century, and was introduced to China at a later stage. China initially did not have a special container, since the Qing Dynasty during the Daoguang period by the Palace of Yangxin Hall Office of special snuff pots, pots attached to the lid of a small fine spoon, in order to scoop the powdered tobacco.

The glass and copper enamel snuff bottles made by the Qing Palace Office during the Kangxi period. Qing Palace Office of Xianfeng, Tongzhi, after the official workshop with precious materials made of snuff bottles significantly reduced, mostly glass, porcelain products. At this time, a large number of folk workshop products, styling more monotonous, decorative motifs appear in the historical figures, drama episodes, city customs and other subjects. At the end of the Qing dynasty appeared inside the painting pots, in glass or crystal pots frosted on the inside wall of the counterpainting figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, etc., can be called a fine product. 1970s, after the development of inside the rapid development of the painting pots.

The reason why snuff bottles are valued, in addition to its own practicality, but also has a gift giving, identity symbols and other functions, since the Qing Dynasty, although the development of only three hundred years of history, because of its small and exquisite, playful, has been favored by Chinese and Western museums and the collection of Chinese cultural relics of the modern era, one of the important projects.