Double Snuff Box
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1735
This double snuff box, created around 1735 in Augsburg, Germany, is fashioned from polychrome enamel on copper and fitted with sculpted silver mounts. The container measures 6.7 × 7.3 × 5.2 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.) and features an hourglass-like or waisted vertical profile with undulating, contoured edges at both the upper and lower rims.
The enameled exterior displays multi-colored pictorial compositions painted across a white ground. The curved sides are decorated with an expansive landscape scene depicting trees, rolling hills, bodies of water, and figures near a stone structure, beneath a pale sky with colorful clouds. The surface of the lid similarly depicts an open-air scene with figures set against rolling earth, water, and distant terrain. Metal mounts encase the top and bottom borders, accentuating the shaped contours of the box.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Polychrome enamel on copper with silver mounts
- Dimensions
- 6.7 × 7.3 × 5.2 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Augsburg, Germany
- Place recorded
- Augsburg
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
- Double Snuff Box
- Museum object number
- 1968.671
Catalogue references
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