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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Former NSW politician Franca Arena is selling her beloved snuff bottle collection, gathered over 40 years from around the world. Arena ...

The Chinese snuff bottle, used to hold powdered tobacco, is the result of global trade that first began when Europeans were exposed to the plant following Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage to 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 ...

From 18th-century villages in China, to 415 South St. in Waltham, a collection of 47 snuff boxes are tucked away inside the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department ...

Snuff, or powdered tobacco, became fashionable in Europe in the early 16th century. The habit of inhaling or “snuffing” tobacco through the nostrils was introduced from the Americas by Ramón Pané [PDF ...

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] ...

A tiny snuff bottle measuring just 1.6 inches high has sold today for nearly a million pounds - smashing all previous records. The beautiful enamel bottle made for China's Emperor Qianlong in the 18th ...

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 ...

"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 ...

This tiny chinese Qianlong snuff bottle made in the the Imperial works in 18th century Peking is part of the collection of George Bloch Credit: Photo: BNPS George and Mary Bloch purchased the first of ...