Chinese Snuff Bottle Educational Resources
Resources for studying, identifying, and appreciating Chinese snuff bottles. Start with the basics, follow the history, or go straight to the archives and reference guides below.
Chinese Snuff Bottle Reference and Collector Resources
What are Snuff Bottles? covers what they are, how they were made, and why they matter. Snuff & Snuff Bottle History follows the story from the origins of snuff through the golden age of the Qing dynasty.
Paid members have access to the ICSBS Journal Article Archive, an index of more than fifty years of scholarship across twenty-seven subject categories, searchable by author or topic and linked directly to the digital issues. The Bookshelf is a bibliography of virtually every book and catalog featuring snuff bottles, compiled and donated to the Society by Richard Baey.
Snuff Bottle Collections documents prominent public and legacy collections, with links to holding institutions, the publications that record them, and auction results.
Three reference guides support attribution and dating. Chinese Calendars converts cyclical dates to Western years and identifies the traditional lunar month names, Reign Marks explains how to read and identify the marks of each Qing reign, and the Glossary defines nearly two hundred terms across materials, carving and decorating techniques, forms and parts, connoisseurship, motifs and symbols, and the major schools and workshops.
Paid members have access to the ICSBS Journal Article Archive, an index of more than fifty years of scholarship across twenty-seven subject categories, searchable by author or topic and linked directly to the digital issues. The Bookshelf is a bibliography of virtually every book and catalog featuring snuff bottles, compiled and donated to the Society by Richard Baey.
Snuff Bottle Collections documents prominent public and legacy collections, with links to holding institutions, the publications that record them, and auction results.
Three reference guides support attribution and dating. Chinese Calendars converts cyclical dates to Western years and identifies the traditional lunar month names, Reign Marks explains how to read and identify the marks of each Qing reign, and the Glossary defines nearly two hundred terms across materials, carving and decorating techniques, forms and parts, connoisseurship, motifs and symbols, and the major schools and workshops.
The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society
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Baltimore, MD 21210 USA
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