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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.

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rappee tobacco tobacco product cigarette cigar chewing tobacco e-cigarette pipe

Key People

tobacco plant

Jean Nicot

French diplomat and scholar