Video: Snuff Bottles, China
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, among the noble ladies of the East, it became fashionable to use snuff. For this, tobacco leaves were used, dried in a special way, with the addition of dried rose petals and jasmine.
Ladies carried tobacco in tiny bottles, sometimes a set of bottles was packed in a special box. The most amazing thing is that such bottles were painted from the inside using a thin brush, the villi of which were attached to the handle at an angle.
The fashion for snuff soon passed, but the painting of bottles became a very popular craft, in addition, they began to paint decorative utensils, Christmas balls and other holiday decorations in a similar way.
Such products should not come into contact with water, however, they are unusually good-looking and look very original - the paint does not change the external luster of the glass, but its prismatic properties whimsically change the original pattern.
In Shanghai and small towns nearby, there are several workshops where glass has been painted from the inside for over a hundred years.
In the video, you can watch the process of painting itself: Source - website Art of China
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