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Figure 232: Snuff bottle, opaque whitish glass with red cut overlay, Chinese, 18th century. In the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Height 10.5 cm.
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Figure 232: Snuff bottle, opaque whitish glass with red cut overlay, Chinese, 18th century. In the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Height 10.5 cm.
Figure 232: Snuff bottle, opaque whitish glass with red cut overlay, Chinese, 18th century. In the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Height 10.5 cm.

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snuff, powdered preparation of tobacco used by inhalation or by dipping—that is, rubbing on the teeth and gums. Manufacture involves grinding the tobacco and subjecting it to repeated fermentations. Snuffs may be scented with attar of roses, lavender, cloves, jasmine, etc. Some of the first peoples known to use snuff were the natives of Brazil. In the late 15th century, members of Christopher Columbus’s crew observed indigenous Caribbean peoples inhaling a snufflike preparation of tobacco. The following century, the practice of inhaling tobacco powder was popularized in France, following the introduction of the tobacco plant from Portugal by French diplomat ...(100 of 326 words)

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