Snuffbox with Eleazar and Rebekah at the Well

ca. 1740

4.4 cm 2.5 cm

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Rendered in repoussé work and engraving is this scene from Genesis in which Rebekah, the beautiful virgin, goes to the well to fetch water for Abraham's servant and for his camels.

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HRH The Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1857); Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904); Sale, Christie's, London, June 8, 1904; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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