Snuff Bottle with European Woman and Child, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736–95), 18th century, China, Painted enamel on copper, H. 2 1/8 in (5.4 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); , Snuff Bottles, Jesuit missionaries brought snuff, or powdered tobacco, to China in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Its use spread quickly, leading to a need for small containers to hold it. Snuff bottles were produced in large numbers and in an astonishing variety of media during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Snuff Bottle, European Woman, Child, Qing dynasty, 1644–1911, Qianlong mark, period, 1736–95, 18th century, China, Painted enamel, copper, H, 2 1/8, 5.4 cm, W, 1 1/2, 3.8, D, 3/4, 1.9 Bottles, Jesuit missionaries, snuff, powdered tobacco, late seventeenth, early eighteenth, century, spread quickly, leading, need, small containers, hold, bottles, produced, large numbers, astonishing variety, media, eighteenth, nineteenth centuries
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