Snuff Bottle Asian Art Inside Painted Glass 2 Gifts

DESCRIPTION: Inside painted snuff bottle.

• Artists with special paint brushes labor for hours under large magnifying glasses and lights to skillfully paint these magnificent creations.
• Each side depicts a different painted scene.

Chinese Snuff bottle History -

• Chinese snuff bottles can be traced back to the middle 1600's.
• It is an epitome of Chinese art.
• Due to it is exceptional versatility of style, technique and material, as well as the fine craftsmanship, these tiny masterpieces quickly became one of the most notable representations of the use of artistic skill throughout the Qing Dynasty.
• The snuff bottle came to China in the Longqing Period of Ming Dynasty.
• At that time, people put snuff into the bottle as medicine.
• Snuff is a kind of pharmaceutical preparation which the perfect ground tobacco powder is put into some rare medicinal Herb's-musk, etc. and sealed into wax pills and then stained different colors, such as dark purple, deep yellow, pale yellow and so on. It tastes mellow and sharp .
• It is said that it can make eyes bright, refresh, exorcise epidemic disease, invigorate the circulation of blood.
• During the 1700's snuff increased in popularity among the Chinese, which created a great demand for Snuff Bottles.
• They became conversation pieces and collectible items almost immediately.
• Collecting snuff bottles became the newest nationwide habit, and it spread to all of the social classes with the actual snuff-taking, at the very end of the eighteenth century.
• The finer the snuff bottle, the more respected was its owner.
• Snuff bottles were made out of every material the Chinese knew. This included Gold, Silver, Copper, Porcelain, Boulder, Coral, Agate, Jade, Crystal, Wood, Bamboo root, gourd, Ivory etc.
• The snuff bottle not only has a certain practicability, it as an important presence in international history.
• According to the history record, Emperor Kang Xi 58 Year(1719) of Qing Dynasty, Peter the Great of Russia has been deputied to Yisi Mand Luofu as Chinese ambassador.
• They visited chinese glass factory of Made department in Yangxin Palace after they went to China, and saw lots of fine snuff bottles.
• The snuff bottles in Qing Dynasty were presents to foreign kings by the Shengzu emperor of Qing Dynasty through foreign ambassadors.

CONDITION: NEW!