Chinese Buddha Statue
Old chinese wooden statue
Chinese bracelet
Ethnic minority bracelet
Chinese puppet
Old chinese puppet china
Chinese boxe
old chinese wooden boxe
Chinese Padklock
Chinese decoration items, china locker
Bronze bouddha
chinese decoration statue
Chinese earrings
Ethnic minority earrings jewelry
Small chinese buddha
chinese wooden buddha, chinese decoration
Chinese Kakemono
Chinese painting, china decoration
Ethnic Hairpins
Chinese minority Hairpins jewelry
Chinese cricket boxes
Small chinese bone cricket boxes
Chinese Opium Lamp
Old chinese opium Lamp
Chinese Snuff Bottles - Asian Decoration
Tobacco arrived in China with European traders (in the seventeenth century). At that time tobacco was not smoked, but was used as pulverised tobacco leaves. It served to clear the airway. However, the Chinese quikly began to smoke the tobacco. They then made chinese snuff-boxes to preserve the tobacco. Chinese snuff-boxes also allows the transport of tobacco.
Chinese Erotica Snuff-Bottles and Porcelain Snuff-boxes
China Snuff-boxes are different from the European snuff-boxes. The chinese snuff-boxes serve to protect the tobacco from humidity. Their use was only for the elite. (Chinese Emperor, mandarins, officials and scholars). From the eighteenth century, Chinese snuff-box becomes popular and all the Chinese strt sniffing tobacco. Many materials are used for the manufacture of snuff-boxes. There are currently made of chinese porcelain , bone, jade, ivory, lacquer, red coral, wood, glass ... On our website we sell two kinds of snuff-boxes. The porcelain snuff boxes and the glass snuff-boxes (the glass is painted on the inside and by transparency it is visible on the outside). The glass snuff-boxes appeared in the early twentieth century.
