Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… An oak and silver snuff box, with a scene of Charles II hiding from soldiers in the Boscobel oak tree, with a putto presenting him with three crowns and a wreath inscribed, 'SACRA JOVI QUERCUS", 1660. Royal Collection Trust Abstract … in my hand. I was not a little pleas’d to hear that it belonged to myself, and was much more so when I found it was a present from a Gentleman that I have so great an honour for. […] I am observ’d to have my Box offner [ sic ] in my hand … belonged. The 'exercice of the snuffbox': performing a social ritual Gestures to open one’s snuffbox, take a pinch or present it at social occasions were codified and interpreted as indicators of the owner’s degree of politeness. The …
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