Swiss - Snuffbox with Calendar Clock and Music Box - Walters 57214
Flanking a relief of musical instruments is a music box, which opens to reveal a man pumping water, a girl filling a cup, and a woman calling her chickens (left side); and a clock with dials for the hours and m... More
Athanasius Stepanovich Popov - Snuffbox with Engraved Scenes - Walters...
Rendered on the faces of the box are scenes of courting couples. Niello, an alloy of silver, copper, and lead, was rubbed into the engraved scenes and then fired. The darkened areas remained in the depressions... More
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Righ...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Open
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Mark...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
Dutch - Snuffbox with Eleazar and Rebekah at the Well - Walters 57205 ...
Rendered in repoussé work and engraving is this scene from Genesis in which Rebekah, the beautiful virgin, goes to the well to fetch water for Abraham's servant and for his camels.
Jean-Michel Lemaire - Snuffbox - Walters 57139
Louis XV (1710-1774) presented this box to the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Left...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elisabeth and Marie Adelaide (on the cover); Victoireand Sophie(on the base); Louis the dauphin with a kite (on t... More
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Thre...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
Louis Ouizille - Snuffbox with the Altar of Love - Walters 5786
The box is decorated with an enameled scene of two maidens and a youth standing by the Altar of Love.
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
English - Heart-Shaped Snuffbox - Walters 5761
Anonymous (English). 'Heart-Shaped Snuffbox,' 1804-1805. mocha-colored agate, gold. Walters Art Museum (57.61): Acquired by Henry Walters.
Meinhardus Hubert - Snuffbox with Putti and Ruins - Walters 5789
Set inside the lid of the box is a portrait miniature of a woman. Hubert served as the court jeweler to Frederick Augustus (1750-1827), king of Saxony and grand duke of Warsaw.
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Bott...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
J T M - Snuffbox with Portrait of a Woman - Walters 5799 - Group
The box opens to reveal a portrait attributed to Jean Baptiste Massé (1687-1767), a miniaturist who portrayed members of the French court.
Philippe Emmanuel Garbe - Snuffbox with Japanese Motifs - Walters 5715...
In the making of this snuffbox, real Japanese lacquer panels, cut from imported boxes, have been used and set into a gold framework.
English - Double Snuffbox with Coat of Arms - Walters 57102
This double snuffbox has hinged covers of chiselled gold; an oblong pouch shape; a flattened section. The body is plain with reeded moulding. The covers form a panel divided in the center, with chiselled deco... More
Louis Quizille - Snuffbox with Chinoiserie Motifs - Walters 57168
The box is set with steel panels showing figures and "chinoiserie" motifs rendered in colored gold.
Noel Hardivilliers - Snuffbox with Landscape and Doves - Walters 57164
Exuberant bird and vegetal Rococo motifs have been engraved on this gold box. Early in the 18th century, snuff was expensive and boxes tended to be small.
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Clos...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
German - Snuffbox - Walters 57143
Rococo floral sprays decorate the inside with the portrait miniature of an elderly man wearing armor. The design is engraved and set with jewels.
William Cooper - Snuffbox with the Cooper Family Crest - Walters 57199...
Mounted on the lid of this burl walnut snuffbox are a silver plate and thumbpiece. The plate, which bears the mark of the famous Boston silversmith Jacob Hurd, has been engraved with the Cooper family crest and... More
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Back
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
English - Cowrie-Shaped Snuffbox - Walters 57138 - Side
Anonymous (English). 'Cowrie-Shaped Snuffbox,' ca. 1750. green jasper, gold, silver, diamond. Walters Art Museum (57.138): Acquired by Henry Walters.
English - Snuffbox with a Park Scene - Walters 57114
This very early snuffbox dates from a time when snuff was still expensive. Portrayed is an urn of flowers flanked by birds in a park.
German - Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox Depicting Europa and the Bull - Wal...
Ovid, in "The Metamorphoses," narrates how the god Zeus assumed the form of a bull in order to seduce the beautiful maiden Europa, whom he carries on his back to Crete.
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Mark...
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
English - Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox with Jupiter - Walters 5722
Frederick, prince of Wales (1707-1751), presented this box to Nathaniel Lee, M.D., in 1738. It shows Jupiter on his eagle.
German - Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox Depicting Views of Towns - Walters ...
Anonymous (German). 'Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox Depicting Views of Towns,' 1765-1770. porcelain with glaze and polychrome, gold. Walters Art Museum (48.2048): Acquired by Henry Walters.
John Innocent - Double Oval Snuffbox - Walters 57101
Set in the red enamel faces of the lids are circular medallions showing classical figures painted "en caimeau."
Barriere - Snuffbox with the Family of Louis XV - Walters 57136 - Top
The box is decorated with images of the children of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska: Louise-Elizabeth and Marie-Adelaide (on the cover); Victoire-Louise and Sophie-Philippine (on the base); Louis the dauph... More
Friedrich Joseph Kolbe - Snuffbox with Military Scene - Walters 57261
Kolbe, a goldsmith who moved from Wurzburg, Germany, to St. Petersburg in 1793, was known for his large, richly ornamented boxes made of multicolored gold.
German - Snuffbox with Floral Decoration - Walters 5748
Anonymous (German). 'Snuffbox with Floral Decoration,' ca. 1785. green jasper, gold, colored agate, semiprecious stones. Walters Art Museum (57.48): Acquired by Henry Walters.
Swiss - Snuffbox with Mother, Children and Sheep - Walters 5720
Anonymous (Swiss). 'Snuffbox with Mother, Children and Sheep,' ca. 1800. gold, "en plein" and "guilloch�" enamel. Walters Art Museum (57.20): Acquired by Henry Walters.
Louis Ferdinand de France by Barrière
Louis (1729–1765), Dauphin of France and eldest son of Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska.
Dutch - Cartouche-Shaped Snuffbox - Walters 57107
Depicted is the biblical story of the destruction of the army of Pharaoh Ramesses II as it pursued the Israelites into the Red Sea.
François Joseph Marteau - Snuffbox - Walters 57165 - Top
This sumptuously jeweled box is engraved with Rococo scroll and floral motifs.
Guillaume Lou - Snuffbox with Lovers in a Bower - Walters 5725
Guillaume Lou (French). 'Snuffbox with Lovers in a Bower,' 1753-1754. gold, shell, agate. Walters Art Museum (57.25): Acquired by Henry Walters, 1916.
Jean Frémin - Snuffbox with Garden and Peacock - Walters 57154
The designs were engraved in low relief on a "sablé" (sand-like) ground.
Jean George - Snuffbox - Walters 5795 - View A
In western Europe during the 18th century, small boxes, ostensibly snuff containers, executed in gold and other precious materials, were among the most prized, luxury products. In this example, the master gold... More