22 January 2010

Little Boxes


Embroidered casket (silk panels); England (originally Hertforshire), 1660s. Victoria and Albert Museum.




Black marble & gold snuffbox (likely of Frederick the Great of Prussia); Germany, 1765. V&A Museum.




Snuffbox (gold inlay, mother of pearl, portrait of Peter III); Western Europe (1754-61). V&A Museum.

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