Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Round ivory snuff box with a ballooning scene painted on ivory set into the lid. The scene represents the launch of ...
AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...
The Regency dandy, Beau Brummell, was a great fan of snuff, and also a known collector of snuff boxes. He could achieve the trick of opening his snuff box and then transferring the snuff from box to ...