Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… reflected and betrayed the character of their owners, depending on the way a pinch was taken or offered. In The Spectator n°138 (8 August 1711), a humorous advertisement for the shop of London’s famous perfumer Charles Lillie … of the snuff-box’. For an excessive consumption of snuff was seen as impolite and unruly. In an essay from The Universal Spectator titled ‘The Art of female conversation’, the author gently mocks the futility of female conversation and … the use of the snuffbox as a ‘polite Aid to Conversation’ to remedy female logorrhea: 5 . Joseph Addison, The Spectator n°138, 8 August 1711. ‘In all Female Conversations there is nothing of such universal Use to fix the Reputation …
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