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Vintage Chinese porcelain snuff bottle is quite beautiful. Hand painted art on the outside of snuff bottle. Great Condition, no chips or cracks.
History of Snuff Bottles: Tobacco usage spread from America To Europe to China during the 17th Century. Europeans carried their boxes and took a pinch with their fingertips. The Chinese upper class, because of their lengthy fingernails, found this inconvenient and devised a bottle with a fitted stopper and attached spoon. These objects soon became objects of art. Snuff bottles were fashioned from precious and semi-precious stones, glass, porcelain and pottery, wood, metals, and ivory. Glass and transparent stone bottles often were enhanced further with delicate hand paintings, some done on the interiors of the bottle.
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