Snuff Bottle with European Woman and Child, 18th century

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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 ( cm); W. 1 1/2 in. ( cm); D. 3/4 in. ( 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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