Snuff or tobacco box, pressed horn, England, 1720-40
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1720-1740
Snuff or tobacco box of pressed horn, it has an oval form with straight upright sides. Its base is pierced with eleven small, round holes. The removable lid bears in relief the fictitious coat-of-arms of the Lumber Troop: an escutcheon displaying the moon and a star, a punch-bowl and a lantern.
The supporters are figures of Bacchus and Ceres. Below is a motto in a ribbon: 'IN NOTE LAETAMUR'. Flanking the motto is a maker's mark: 'BAKER | FECIT'. The arms on this small box are an ornament for a tobacco paper designed and engraved by the artist William Hogarth for John Harrison, who kept a tobacco shop in Bell Yard, Temple Bar. Both Hogarth and Harrison belonged to a social organisation known as the 'Lumber Troop' around the year 1730.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Height 3.5 cm; Width 9 cm; Depth 8 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Pressed horn
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- England
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O370786
- Museum object number
- W.21-1940
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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