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People generally carried snuff in a small bottle. By the 20th century these bottles had become collectors' items, owing to the great variety of materials and decorative techniques used in their production.","physicalDescription":"Snuff bottle, flattened octagonal flask with a curved oval panel on each side, cylindrical neck, no foot but with faceted indentation underneath. Opaque white glass painted in blue, red, green, purple, brown and black enamels with two figures walking in a landscape with a building, pine trees and a mountain in a distance; on the reverse with the same building and a figure standing by pine trees with mountains in a distance; faceted sides painted with formal rosettes in red on a blue ground. 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The habit of snuff-taking spread to China from the West during the 17th century.\r\n\r\nGlass painted in coloured enamels,\r\nBronze stopper with coral inset\r\nImperial workshops, Beijing\r\n\r\nSalting Bequest\r\nMuseum no. C.1583-1910","date":{"text":"2009","earliest":"2009-01-01","latest":"2009-12-31"}},{"text":"C.1583-1910\r\nOctagonal form with elliptical panel on each side; graduated stopper, dome-shaped at the top, with figure indentations. Glass, opaque white, with decoration in enamel colours, blue, red, green, purple, brown and black; stopper of coral set in brass with incise decoration. Two figures walking in a landscape, with a building, pine tree, and mountains in the distance; on reverse, the same building, a figure standing by the pine tree, and mountains in the distance; faceted surfaces have panels containing rosettes.\r\nIllustrated in Stevens, p. 270 no. 972; the style and high quality of the landscapes suggests a date in the Qianlong period (1736-1795); it has been suggested that this bottle was made in the Beijing Palace Workshops.\r\nNo footrim; rectangular indentation underneath base.\r\n1736-1795\r\nH. 3.9cm\r\nSalting Bequest.","date":{"text":"pre 2005","earliest":null,"latest":"2004-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["C.1583-1910","C.1583A-1910"],"accessionNumberNum":"1583","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1910,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Snuff bottle","Stopper"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2023-06-05","recordCreationDate":"1998-07-16"}}