Snuff Box
1820-1821
Artists
Description
Oblong, base and hinged cover with traces of engine-turning within reeded and applied foliate borders, the center engraved with a script.
Dimensions
1.9 x 7.3 x 4.4 cm (3/4 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
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