Snuffbox with Hardstone Flowers

ca. 1785

7.2 cm 4.1 cm

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A complicated figure, Frederick the Great was both a successful soldier and a great patron of arts. This large snuffbox was likely made at a factory founded by him in Berlin. He had a particular liking for hardstone objects, owning at least one box very similar to this and fre...

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Sale, Paris, no. 78. Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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