Ancient Chinese handmade interior painting ancient glazed snuff bottle
Ancient glazed snuff bottle
Snuff bottle is specially used to hold snuff. It is generally as big as a pack of cigarettes for easy carrying. Among the relics of the world, more than 20 bronze Yunlong snuff bottles made by Shunzhi Cheng Rongzhang are the earliest snuff bottles. Kangxi was very fond of western handicrafts. He recruited a group of westerners who knew how to make glass smoke bottles and paint enamel, and made snuff bottles in the Forbidden City. The art of snuff bottle reached its peak during the reign of Qianlong. It is popular to enjoy and collect snuff bottles, and the use of snuff filled in gradually comes next. All the skills of traditional Chinese art: painting, calligraphy, porcelain firing, glazing, grinding jade, smelting rhinoceros, carving teeth, carving bamboo, painting, coating, swinging bamboo, inlaying gold and silver, inlaying mother of pearl, pasting yellow, etc. are used in snuff bottles. Snuff bottles became important things during the reign of Emperor Qianlong.
Dimensions: length 3.5 cm, width 3.5 cm, height 6.2 cm, weight 29 g
