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The prices of antique Chinese snuff bottles have been on the rise in recent years, and it is likely only a matter of time before they really take off. In the last decade, China’s newly minted ...

Could you tell me what this is? I would also like to know how old it is and where it came from. Dear B. M.: In photos sent, the piece is shown disassembled. There is a small button-shaped component, a ...

Three Chinese porcelain snuff bottles that are being auctioned by Bonhams in Hong Kong on May 28. Each snuff bottle is expected to be sold for between HK$60,000 ($7,732) and HK$120,000.[Agencies] ...

"The snuff is put into glass bottles [of various colours]... The white [ones] as clear as crystal, the red like fire. What lovely things they are!" raved Wang Shizhen, a high-ranking minister of the ...

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses 47 Chinese snuff bottles from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Brandeis acquired this collection ...

The Chinese began to use snuff bottles to hold powdered tobacco during the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1912). Although smoking tobacco was made illegal during that time, snuff was allowed because it was ...