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accession number:	1958.124
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Snuff Box (Tabatière), 1777–1778. François Chazeray (French). Gold and enamel; overall: 2.9 x 3.9 cm (1 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1958.124

title:				Snuff Box (Tabatière)
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creation date:			1777–1778
creation date earliest:		1777
creation date latest:		1778
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene
copyright:			

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culture:	France, 18th century (style of Louis XVI)
technique:	gold and enamel
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Metalwork
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CREATORS

* François Chazeray (French)  - artist
Master in 1760
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measurements: Overall: 2.9 x 3.9 cm (1 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[Maker's mark of François Chazeray, master goldsmith in 1760, cover; bottom; front wall]
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	inscription:	[Warden's mark (probably a crowned "O"), Paris, 1777-1778, cover; bottom; front wall]
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	inscription:	[Illegible mark, bottom]
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	inscription:	[Illegible mark, cover]
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	inscription:	[Illegible charge mark, inside front]
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	inscription:	[Discharge mark of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris, 1774-1780, on neck at left.
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	inscription:	[Outside of neck, modern inscription 

'4 (modern inscription]:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, Ohio.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Norton, Richard, and Martin Norton.<em> A History of Gold Snuff Boxes.</em> London: Messrs. S.J. Phillips, 1938.
	page number: 	reproduced pl. 33B
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=3162472

	Milliken, William M. <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>45, no. 3 (March 1958): 35-94.
	page number: 	reproduced P 61
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142265

	Milliken, William M. "Annual Report Issue for the Year 1957." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 45, no. 6 (June 1958): 159-90.
	page number: 	reproduced P 168
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142278

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	reproduced P 159
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n183

	Grandjean, Serge. <em>Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du Musée du Louvre</em>. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1981.
	page number: 	mentioned P 69
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=9969428

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