Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… objets d’art to more affordable 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 … have seen it at social occasions. Owned by the duc d’Aumont, a famous connoisseur, the snuffbox offers a form of visual performance. When it is opened, the peacock’s tail appears majestically upright in a highly theatrical manner, … encapsulates the highly ritualistic nature of modes of sociability around snuff consumption and the importance of the performance of bodies in the making of sociability. Whether snuff-takers were friends, mere acquaintances or utter …
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