Christie's will offer a collection of 37 fine and rare snuff bottles from a private American collection for auction this Oct 7 in its Hong Kong's office. Its highlights include two enameled glass ...

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 ...

Artworks encompassing snuff bottles decorated with interior painting are displayed at an art museum in Hengshui city, North China’s Hebei province, on Sept 1, 2021.[Photo/Xinhua] Hengshui ...

Chinese snuff bottles might not be in as high demand compared to their height during the 19th century, when people from all different walks of life in China would commonly own a bottle and offer ...

Former NSW politician Franca Arena is selling her beloved snuff bottle collection, gathered over 40 years from around the world. Arena was a senator in the NSW Parliament from 1981 to 1999.

A collection of rare Chinese snuff bottles, which belonged to a West Midlands author, have only sold for about a fifth of their expected price. The collection, which dates back almost 80 years ...

Instead it was customary to use snuff bottles, small corked containers that kept their pricey contents fresh and flavorful. Throughout the 18th century, snuff was an expensive habit; both snuff ...

Wang Ziyong and his apprentices create inside painting works on the inside surface of snuff bottles at a museum featuring inside paintings in Taocheng District of Hengshui City, north China's ...

"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 ...

A collection of rare Chinese snuff bottles, which belonged to a West Midlands author, is expected to fetch more than £25,000 at auction. The collection, which dates back almost 80 years ...