San Francisco Bay Area Snuff Bottle Collectors translate Chinese calligraphy

San Francisco Bay Area Collectors share and discuss Chinese snuff bottles of organic materials. >>

Porcelain Imperial poem, yuzhi inscribed.

Chinese Snuff Bottle Collectors of Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia

The Chinese Snuff Bottle Collectors of Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia met in November at the home of Catherine Wu >>

Famille-rose enamels on copper with gold (of the type known as cloisonné); decorated with a continuous garden scene with, on one side, a katydid amidst flowering chrysanthemums, also with a slight, rocky ground. 

Brushes used by various artists for inside painting of bottles

Brushes used by various artists for inside painting of bottles >>

Glass, ink and water-colours; painted on the inside with a continuous subject of various auspicious objects (a natural rock-sculpture, a basket of fish and peonies, a cabbage and two turnips, a planter of calamus grass etc.