Snuffbox, ca. 1749–50, French, Saint-Cloud, Soft-paste porcelain, silver, Width: 3 3/4 in. ( cm), Ceramics-Porcelain

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Snuffbox, ca. 1749–50, French, Saint-Cloud, Soft-paste porcelain, silver, Width: 3 3/4 in. ( cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, In eighteenth-century Europe, Paris led the production of high-quality luxury goods. Parisian goldsmiths made a wide range of small, personal articles such as snuffboxes; étuis to hold sealing wax, tweezers, or utensils for sewing; souvenirs, which contained thin ivory tablets for note taking; and shuttles for knotting lace

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