Sentence examples for snuff bottle from inspiring English sources
noun
A bottle used by the Chinese during the Qing dynasty to contain powdered tobacco.
The snuff bottle was part of a gilded pattern.
This week an auction in Hong Kong set a record price for an early Qing dynasty painted snuff bottle; the next day the government reclassified around 100 million people as living in poverty.
They come from the estate of the Southern California collector Linda Riddell Hoffman, who "was instrumental in instigating the first meeting of national snuff bottle collectors in 1968," the catalog notes.
The new addition to the Shangri-La Hotel (33 Fucheng Road, 86-21-6882-8888) is also a good place for a scenic view, and it has a great bar and an elegant restaurant, Jade on 36, which features a deconstructed rice bowl entryway and glass snuff bottle decorations.
There are snuff bottles, nesting bowls, tea caddies, ginger jars.
In Chinese antiques, we focused on snuff bottles when everyone is into blue and white porcelain.
But they can opt out in other ways — by putting their wealth into snuff bottles, handbags and overvalued real estate.
Joe Grimberg, a British lawyer based in Singapore, is selling about 200 Chinese snuff bottles at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
From China, he amassed more than 900 snuff bottles and 200 rhinoceros horn cups, all decorated with minute carvings.
The house then turns to China (Sept . 17, with snuff bottles from the J&J Collection in the morning, followed by ceramics and works of art.
Links to self-indulgent despots have driven up a few estimates for a Bonhams auction of 154 Chinese snuff bottles on Tuesday.
