Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… plebeian social circles. Their highly decorative surfaces also afforded a grammar of sociability, from ostentatious display aimed to impress to the material expression of emotions. Objects > Art & Luxury Objects > Clothing & Fashion … of the tobacco trade between Britain, and Spain, and their American colonies. They could be carried in pockets or displayed as curiosities or as part of luxurious tableware. Various materials were used, and often combined, during the … scientific, commercial relations and characterized by a multiplicity of social interactions. Being construed to be displayed in the presence of others to take or offer a pinch of snuff or to be admired as dazzling artwork, snuffboxes were …
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