Surprised everyone by Making Art inside the Bottle || Love Handmade Art || Handmade gift A snuff bottle with the playing children motif of the Guyuexuan genre.
One of these techniques was inside painting – hand-painting on the inner wall of a bottle made of transparent mediums like glass, crystal, and agate. The painter used a curved-tip thin brush pen for the work. Understandably, the inner-painted snuff bottle was not meant to contain ground tobacco, and purely a work of art.
Painting on the inside of a miniature container is challenging, especially when the motifs can be as intricate as landscapes, insects, and human figures. The technique had been guarded as a secret of the industry and not disclosed to the public until the end of the last century.
Favored by the Emperor
In the 17th century, a German writer published an article in Leipzig, talking of a ridiculous trend sweeping the world snuff tobacco. He said that in all countries people of all classes, from the king to the pauper, used it. China was one of these countries.
Snuff is smokeless tobacco that is inhaled into the nasal cavity. It is made of ground tobacco leaves blended with additives, such as mint and borneol. The mixture is dried in the sun, fermented, and sifted before being stored in a cellar for years to mature. It is believed to have the medical effects of clearing excessive heat in the human body, relieving pain, reducing fatigue, and reinvigorating. Snuff was first brought into China by Western missionaries as a tribute to the emperor, and immediately favored by the royal family.
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