Snuffbox, Louis-Philippe Demay (French, master 1758, died 1772), 1764–65, French, Paris, Gold, 1 3/8 × 3 3/16 × 2 3/8 in. (

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Snuffbox, Louis-Philippe Demay (French, master 1758, died 1772), 1764–65, French, Paris, Gold, 1 3/8 × 3 3/16 × 2 3/8 in. ( × × 6 cm), Metalwork-Gold and Platinum, Louis-Philippe Demay (French, master 1758, died 1772), 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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