Snuff Box: Portrait of Henrietta, Duchesse d'Orleans
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
18th century
This eighteenth-century French snuff box is fashioned from carved brown agate mounted with gold-toned metalwork, enamel, and diamonds. Designed with shaped, multi-faceted contours, the box features a hinged lid framed with a decorative border displaying colored enamel floral motifs interspersed with leaves.
Set centrally into the top of the lid is an oval portrait miniature in enamel on copper depicting Henrietta, Duchesse d'Orleans. The portrait shows the subject with curled brown hair, wearing a pearl necklace and a blue garment, bordered by a white enamel band and a surround set with small diamonds. The box measures 4.5 × 7 × 5.7 cm (1 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.) and was produced in Paris, France.
Evidence at a glance
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Agate, diamonds, enamel on copper
- Dimensions
- 4.5 × 7 × 5.7 cm (1 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Paris, France
- Place recorded
- France
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Art Institute of Chicago collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Snuff Box: Portrait of Henrietta, Duchesse d'Orleans
- Museum object number
- 1952.1102
Catalogue references
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