LOT 0121 A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED FAMILLE ROSE CIRCULAR BOMBE SNUFF BOX A...
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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED FAMILLE ROSE CIRCULAR BOMBE SNUFF BOX AND COVER Qianlong period, circa 1740 the very slightly domed cover painted with a semi-recumbent Western lady wearing a blue fur-lined night gown that displays ample decolletage, in an interior with a curtain pulled to one side and with objects on a table behind her, the bombe sides of the box with alternate large and small grisaille and iron red and puce landscape vignette panels, the base entirely painted in puce with a lakeside or river coastline, the interior of the hinged cover painted with a naked couple in embrace on a blanket set on a grassy bank before a single tree and two flowering bushes, perhaps roses, the box interior gilt. 2 15/16in (7.7cm) across Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1740年 鎏金嵌裝粉彩鼻烟圓盒 The taking of 'snuff' (ground imported tobacco, which stimulated the senses in the manner of nicotine in cigarettes) was a widely accepted social practice in 18th century European polite society. The correct manner of offering, accepting and inhaling a 'pinch of snuff' was standardized at least as early as 1734. By 1781 Jean Sebastian Mercier wrote that 'a well-dressed man should have a different snuffbox for every day of the year'. There were many varieties of boxes with standard types of attractive decoration, constructed from a variety of different materials for use in mixed company, but boxes with erotic motifs would probably have been reserved for use only in male company for the entertainment of friends. A cargo list for three Portuguese ships arriving in Lisbon in 1756, recorded 842 enameled copper (i.e., 'Canton enamel' rather than rarer and more fragile porcelain) tobacco boxes and snuff boxes from China.
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