Snuff bottle is a kind of traditional handicraft, which began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. The inner painted snuff bottle appeared in the early days of Daoguang at the end of Jiaqing. It is painted in a transparent pot with a special tiny hook brush. The original interior snuff bottle was a transparent glass pot with no frosted inner wall. Because the inner wall was smooth and not easy to attach ink and color, it could only draw some simple pictures and patterns, such as: Des sauterelles cabbage, dragon, phoenix and the stick of landscapes, figures, etc., then, artists use iron ore and emery water back and forth in the snuff bottle inside roll grinding, such making that the snuff bottle inside white frosted glass, is exquisite and smooth, easy adherent inky, effect like rice paper, painting of snuff bottles later some more fine works, Later developed for poetry, calligraphy and painting together with fine art.
After snuff was introduced into China, the Chinese people first used traditional medicine bottles to hold snuff. On this basis, they used a variety of materials and production techniques to perfect the container of snuff. In the process of use, they found that the bottle with a small mouth and large stomach is more beneficial for storing snuff, which can ensure that snuff does not go bad in long-term use, and is convenient to carry, with the traditional Chinese aesthetic style, so it is loved by snuff smokers. In China's Qing Dynasty, from the emperor to the people, inhaling snuff is very popular. Led by the emperor of the feudal nobility, extravagant, they use snuff bottles often collect precious materials, skilled craftsmen for their design, manufacture. Some collectors think in the world, snuff bottle is a collection of Chinese arts and crafts into the pocket art.
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Carved lacquer snuff bottle past life
Carved lacquer snuff bottle past life
Inner Mongolia to silver and other metal craft snuff bottles; Liaoning is rich in agate, mainly in agate snuff bottles; Xizang is also based on metal snuff bottles. Snuff bottles can be made of many materials, including gold, copper, silver, porcelain, materials, jade, coral, agate, amber, jade, crystal, wood, bamboo root, wood stone, lacquer, gourd, fruit stone and so on.
Figure tattoo snuff bottle
Chinese snuff bottle is a collection of Chinese painting, calligraphy, carving, insetting and jade, porcelain, material, lacquer, enamel, metal and other crafts in one.
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