Snuff Bottle Categories


Glass snuff bottle with double overlays of milky white and transparent sapphire-blue colors on white glass carved with a continuous design of two four-clawed dragons, 1760–1790. Bloch Collection.

Glass >>
Suzhou white jade, school of Zhiting.

Jade >>
Imperial enamels on copper, “European Goatherd.”

Metal >>
An inkstone snuff bottle carved on both sides with dragons chasing flaming pearls, Imperial Guangzhou, 1780-1820.

Hardstone >>
Imperial ivory snuff bottle with reticulated carving of a full-faced coiled dragon, a flaming pearl and clouds on both the front and the reverse. Francine and Bernard Wald Collection.

Organic >>
Porcelain Imperial poem, yuzhi inscribed.

Porcelain >>
Inside-painted rock crystal snuff bottle by Ye Zhongsan with the twelve zodiac animals. Seen here are a horse, a monkey, a snake, a tiger, a rabbit, and a pig, 1932.

Inside Painted >>