GREAT PYRENEES KUVASZ POINTER RARE SNUFF BOTTLE DOGS

GREAT PYRENEES KUVASZ POINTER RARE SNUFF BOTTLE DOGS (image 1/2)
GREAT PYRENEES KUVASZ POINTER RARE SNUFF BOTTLE DOGS (image 2/2)
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This is a RARE Chinese Snuff bottle painted from the inside out. This is a really beautiful glass collectible which was obtained by a deceased relative, and was in the family for years. This piece features what appears to be a beautiful Great Pyrenees or Kuvasz on one side and a German Shorthair - Pointer style dog on the other (please note the docked tail) . I have enclosed pictures of both sides. This dog collectible comes in its own beautiful linen lined box. 's a little Snuff bottle information. The Chinese snuff bottle trace back to middle 1600's.It's an epitome of Chinese art. Chinese paintings, foreign paintings, calligraphy, engrave, inlay, and bowlder, porcelain, lacquer, enamel and metal, etc art all concentrate in snuff bottle. Due to it's exceptional versatility of style, technique and material, all in one small object these exceptional masterpieces quickly became one of the most notable representations of the use of artistic skill throughout the Qing Dynasty. The snuff comes to China in Longqing Period of Ming Dynasty. At that time, people put snuff into the bottle as medicine. When you want to use it, you can get it from the bottle, it's very convenient. The utensil that is filled with snuff was called "snuff bottle".Snuff is a kind of pharmaceutical preparation which the perfect ground tobacco powder is put into read more
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