snuff box



snuff box

Summary

An oblong box with concave sides, rounded base, plain mount and a hinged lid. Enamel on metal and transfer printed on the lid with a print in pink of a man driving a horse with a pack on its back with a large tree in the foreground and ruins in the distance enclosed in a scroll border of raised white enamel. The sides are decorated with four prints in pink depicting farming scenes.


Object Name

snuff box

Dimensions

object: 3cm x 6.6cm

accession number

1958.346

Place of creation

South Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Harold Raby bequest

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