Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… which came in various shapes and designs and ranged from luxurious objets d’art to more affordable artefacts. Significantly, as portable objects, they were constitutive accessories in the performance of fashionable sociability among the … 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 other European countries. The popularity of … observ’d to have my Box offner [ sic ] in my hand than those that have bin [ sic ] used to one these twenty years, for I cant [ sic ] forbear taking it out of my pocket whenever I think of M r Dashwood.’ 4 Here the snuffbox transited in …
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