What were ancient snuff bottles used for?

Like smoking, it's smelling.

Snuff bottles are specially used to hold snuff.

Snuff is a tobacco product made by roasting, removing stems, powdering, fermenting and adding spices. Snuff became popular in Europe in the 17th century and was later introduced to China. Originally, there were no special containers in China, but since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the palace has made a special snuff bottle with a small spoon inside the lid to scoop the tobacco powder.

Although the snuff bottle has only a history of 300 years since the development of the Qing Dynasty, it has been favored by Chinese and Western museums and collectors because of its small and delicate size and easy to play, and has become one of the important items of modern Chinese cultural relics.

Snuff bottles are used to hold snuff.

Snuff bottles are specially used to hold snuff and are generally as large as a pack of cigarettes for easy portability. From the surviving relics, Shunzhi Cheng Rongzhang made more than 20 pieces of bronze carved cloud dragon snuff bottles, which is the earliest snuff bottle. Kangxi had a soft spot for Western crafts, and he recruited a group of Westerners who were proficient in making glass cigarette bottles and painting enamel to make snuff bottles in the Forbidden City.

The art of snuff bottles reached its peak in the Qianlong Dynasty. Collecting snuff bottles has become a trend, and the use of snuff has gradually become secondary. All the skills of traditional Chinese art:

Painting, calligraphy, porcelain burning, glazing, jade grinding, rhino smelting, tooth carving, bamboo carving, lacquer removal, nesting, swinging, gold and silver inlay, luodian inlay, yellow sticking and so on are all used in snuff bottles. During the Qianlong period, snuff bottles became something for Doufu to show his identity.

Snuff bottles are used to hold snuff, which can maintain a good moisture-proof and moisture-proof effect, and at the same time, it can also make the aroma of snuff continue to emit out. Snuff bottles were introduced to China from Europe and other countries during the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was the best developed era, and many dignitaries and princes and nobles were proud to own snuff bottles.

The snuff bottle has also become a symbol of the owner's identity, and it is precisely because of the increase in demand that the material of the snuff bottle has begun to be continuously upgraded, and a variety of snuff bottles of different materials have begun to appear in the market.

The development of snuff bottles

With the continuous development of the times, snuff bottles have disappeared from our daily life, and they are rarely seen in the market, but they can be seen in some large auctions.

Due to the precipitation of the times, the ** of snuff bottles is also rising, especially the snuff bottles of the Qing Dynasty, which have always occupied a high ** advantage in major auctions, but the snuff bottles of other dynasties can also be judged according to the production process and production materials, and confirm the corresponding **.