Snuffbox

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533

The complex decorative schemes on this box, including four hands of playing cards on the lid, a game of chess in progress on the underside, and three enigmatic inscriptions, suggest that it was commissioned as an intimate gift and expresses a coded message that cannot be easily deciphered today.

Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna

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Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna
Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna
Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna
Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna
Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna
Snuffbox, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, gold, Austrian, Vienna

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