Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… circles as well as in lower social ranks, snuffboxes were widely popular and served as the expression of friendship and love. Some models were particularly designed to convey a message on the lid, or had a miniature portrait set to it, which … pauses during conversation, relied in its performativity, eliciting social interactions, enacting the memory of loved ones and shaping the identity of fashionable individuals in tangible and material rituals of sociability. Share …
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