Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… expression of emotions. Objects > Art & Luxury Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Social interaction Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Keywords Collecting Consumption Emotions Fashion Friendship Luxury North … business and had their cousin Pierre-François Drouais as an associate. France was the epicentre of the flourishing taste for gold snuffboxes which grew significantly from the 1720s to the French Revolution and whose fashion spread to … snuffboxes from their workshops. Luxury snuffboxes granted their owners a visual expression of wealth, social rank and taste. The King of Portugal had his Ambassador in France commission a gold snuffbox studded with diamonds and emeralds, …
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