AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...
WHAT: A three-compartment snuff box, circa 1800, with concealed automaton and a timepiece, sold for $62,500 at Heritage Auctions in New York recently. Attributed to watchmakers Piguet & Capt, the ...
Staffordshire potters in 19th-century England liked to depict humorous people in everyday activities. The figurines were the only way to see what a brave lion tamer or important political figure ...
Throughout history, tobacco has had its own long and varied history. From the middle of the 1600s to the present day, snuff (pulverized tobacco) has had an interesting place in the history of art and ...
What’s your personality like? Long before BuzzFeed or the Myers-Briggs personality test, there was phrenology—a pseudoscience that used the lumps and bumps of human skulls to tease out the secrets of ...
A Russian imperial snuff box that the family of a Bulgarian minister claims was stolen from the diplomat's son during the Allies' bombing of Europe. Christie's The family of a late Bulgarian minister ...
This snuff box was given to me in the 1960s by a former patient when I was a practicing physician in Colorado. She had noticed that I had a small collection of old medical items. The box is wood, 5 ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This music box was likely made by ...
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