Download Image
Terms and conditions of use
Snuff box
(late 18th century)
Medium
ivory, porcelain (blue jasper), metal
Measurements
2.2 × 8.8 × 4.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1917
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1869-D3
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Ivory snuff box with blue jasper plaque set under glass on the lid. Box trimmed with gold.
Explore the collection
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
JAR
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Bonds Emission poster for the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry
Henri RAPIN
Belt buckle (Bust of a woman)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
CANDLESTICK
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Commemorative Certificate awarded at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Louis Pierre RIGAL (draughtsman); Omer BOUCHERY (etcher)
BOWL
COAL SCUTTLE
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
DECANTER JUG
JUG
MINTON (manufacturer)
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
VASE
Furstenberg (manufacturer)
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
MEASURE WITH LID
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
TAPPIT-HENS
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Shield
Unknown