Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox with Jupiter

ca. 1735

5.7 cm 2.7 cm 7.8 cm

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Originating in the Americas, the practice of “taking snuff,” or inhaling pulverized tobacco through the nose, became a common European custom by the 17th century. Consumers of all social levels and of both sexes would carry small, airtight boxes filled with the powdered tobacc...

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Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), ca. 1735, by commission; Nathaniel Lee, M.D. (1694-1755), England, 1735, by gift; Sarah Beavis, Hatton Garden, October, 1759, by bequest; Harding, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, November, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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