id:			168067
accession number:	2009.64
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.64
updated:		2023-08-24 00:39:51.956000

Snuff Box, c. 1750–60. England, London. Gold-mounted agate, engine-turned panels, hematites; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Howard F. Stirn 2009.64

title:				Snuff Box
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creation date:			c. 1750–60
creation date earliest:		1750
creation date latest:		1760
current location:		203B British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline:			Gift of Howard F. Stirn
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culture:	England, London
technique:	gold-mounted agate, engine-turned panels, hematites
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Miscellaneous
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)
	opening date:   2020-06-30T04:00:00
	<i>British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* National Exhibition of Works in Leeds, 1868.

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, H. Hawkins Esq.
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	Private Collection, Edinburgh
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	Howard F. Stirn [1923-2016], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -2009
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2009-
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fun fact:
This small, elaborate box held snuff, a form of powdered tobacco that was inhaled in tiny amounts.

digital description:
Luxurious personal objects, like this snuff box, were an essential part of a privileged wardrobe during the 1700s and early 1800s, emphasizing their owner’s refinement and wealth. Their glittering surfaces, however, disguised a system based on the labor and suffering of enslaved or indentured people, whether in gold or gemstone mines, tobacco farms, or shops where these goods were made. Like cotton, sugar, and tea, snuff came from British colonies in America, India, and the Caribbean, where enslaved people were exploited to grow these crops under extremely harsh conditions.

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