Culture Making Articles items tagged tobaccoCulture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch2025-01-03T22:54:05ZCopyright (c) 2025, Andy CrouchExpressionEnginetag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02Agate snuff bottle, China, 19th centurytag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.17902025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.comNate: ?Last night I attended a lecture on—why not?—antique Chinese snuff bottles. Snuff is, of course, made of spiced tobacco, a New World commodity, and made its way east to Europe and then on to China with the Portuguese and the Jesuits (whose gifts of snuff and snuff-boxes were among the few Western trinkets not disdained by the Emperor). I was surprised at how small the bottles were—barely the size of the smallest cell phone, with their stopper-openings about a quarter-inch in diameter.?
