Rectangular Snuffbox

1757-1759

6.3 cm 3.1 cm 3.1 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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Collection of Charles J. Wertheimer (date and mode of aquisition unknown); Sale, Christie's, London, May 8 1912, no. 34; purchased by George Harding, London, 1912 (?); purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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