Snuffbox

1743-1744

7.8 cm 5.9 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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1945
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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931.
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en
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