What is a snuff box? What is a snuff box for

A handicraft, very exquisite, with glass on the outside and something painted on the inside.

Snuff bottles are specially used to hold snuff.

A snuff box is a container for snuff.

A snuff bottle is a container for snuff with a small handle that is easy to carry. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, snuff was introduced to China. Snuff is a tobacco product that is made by roasting, removing stems, powdering, fermenting, and adding spices.

Nose travel smoke became popular in Europe in the 17th century and was introduced to China in the later period. The first sources in China did not have a special ashtray, but since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, it was built in the center of the imperial palace to make snuff bottles, and the caps of the bottles are scooped with small spoons to scoop the ashes.

Chinese snuff bottles, as exquisite handicrafts, set calligraphy and painting, carving, inlay, pondering and other skills in one, using porcelain, copper, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, the use of blue and white, colorful, carved porcelain, nesting, ingenious work, interior painting and other techniques, absorbing the advantages of a variety of crafts inside and outside the region, is regarded as a precious cultural play by enthusiasts, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad in the potato town. It has become the object of Chinese and foreign people's cherished collection.

Artistic features

Snuff bottles are a traditional handicraft that began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. The inner painting snuff bottle appeared in the late Jiaqing years and the early Daoguang period. It is drawn with a special tiny hook brush inside a transparent pot.

The original inner painting snuff bottle was a transparent glass pot with no frosted inner wall, because the inner wall was smooth and not easy to adhere to ink and color, so only some simple pictures and patterns could be painted.

For example: the grasshopper cabbage, dragon, phoenix and simple brushstrokes of landscapes, figures, etc., later, the artists used iron sand and emery and water to shake and grind back and forth on the inner surface of the snuff bottle, so that the inner wall of the snuff bottle is milky white frosted glass, delicate but not smooth, easy to adhere to the ink color, the effect is like rice paper, the inner painting snuff bottle later appeared some more fine works, and then later developed into poetry, calligraphy and painting and fine art.

The <> snuff bottle is a traditional instrument used to smoke tobacco products, and its main function is to inhale tobacco powder into the nasal cavity. Snuff bottles are usually made of porcelain, glass, wood, or other materials and have a small lid on them that can be opened and closed. When using a snuff box, the user needs to first pour the tobacco powder into the jug, then gently press and hold the nostril, put the spout into the other nostril, and gently inhale to let the tobacco powder into the nasal cavity.

Snuff bottles are considered a more elegant and healthy hobby than smoking, as the smoke produced by snuff cracks has less effect on the lungs than smoking. In addition, snuff smoking is considered a cultural, social, and ritual act, and is seen as a traditional etiquette on certain occasions.