Powder boxes were often sent by men as a token of love to the women they admired. Aside from tea and sweets, compacts were also given as gifts to friends and relatives. One chapter from Chinese ...

I found this charming La Bara face powder box at a compact collectors convention held in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. There was little interest in cosmetics ephemera at that time, at least at the ...

The oldest-known Chinese women's compacts appeared during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). They were simple and plain. It wasn't until the Tang and Song dynasties, that compacts came to be more ...