Snuffbox with Garden and Peacock

1751-1752

8.1 cm 6 cm 4 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 Henry Maitland, 13th Earl of Lauderdale (1840-1924); Sale, Christie's, London, June 30, 1911, no. 62; Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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