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The habit of snuff-taking spread to China from the West during the 17th century and became established in the 18th century. 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":"The bottle is an oblong flattened flask form with a three-part stopper.\r\nIt is made of chalcedony, grey and tawny yellow with brown inclusions, with decoration carved in relief. The stopper is of white glass, lapis lazuli and coral.\r\nThe decoration depicts a bearded man sitting beside water holding a peach in his hand; beneath a willow tree is a jar, a fan and a bottle gourd with a cloud of vapour. On the reverse there is a man holding a bottle gourd on a round tray in a landscape of rocks, water, willow and pine.\r\nThe high curved foot has a shallow indentation underneath.\r\nThe decoration may represent episodes in the story of Li Tieguai, the Immortal who is particularly associated with the bottle gourd. 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