Snuffbox with Landscape and Doves

1731-1732

6.4 cm 1.3 cm 4.5 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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Paris, 1726-1732 [tax-stamps for the sous-fermier Jacques Cottin]; Harding, New York [date and mode of aquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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gold

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