Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… artefacts. Significantly, as portable objects, they were constitutive accessories in the performance of fashionable sociability among the elite but also in more plebeian social circles. Their highly decorative surfaces also afforded a … (ed.), Le commerce du Luxe à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), p. 133-149. Toyshops were also places of sociability where clients and friends met and enjoyed buying these new fashionable props for themselves or as … snuffbox re-enacted the presence of the absentee and abolished distances, allowing the owner to travel mentally to other places and times where he/she was in the company of his/her friend. The exchange of snuffboxes materialized emotions and …
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