Snuffbox
Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian
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.
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