Snuffbox with Trophy

1765

9.3 cm 4.4 cm 3.9 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. 42; George Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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माध्यम
quatre-couleur gold
विधा
snuffboxes