Question: During what century did boxes serve as decorative container for holding and serving luxurious sweetmeats?
About the article "Marzipan", section "Etymology".

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Snuff boxes are made in two sizes, ones for the pocket and communal boxes made for table use.
Pocket boxes are usually made to hold a few grammes of snuff for immediate consumption.
The best have well fitting lids that ensure unwanted air does not penetrate the box, although wholly air-tight boxes are a rarity.
The principle role of a pocket box is to keep a day or two's supply of snuff in good condition with the bulk being kept in an airtight container.
Table boxes are still to be found in the mess of certain old regiments - often in the traditional 'ram's head' style - and a communal snuff box is still kept in the House of Lords in the UK parliament.
[[Image:Copper snuffbox.jpg|thumb|Coffin-shaped snuff box made from sheet copper, raised, tinned inside and engraved.
It is English and is dated 1792.
Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonOne of the more functional types of decorative boxes is the snuff box.
Snuff boxes are made in pocket sizes - holding a few grammes for immediate consumption - and as larger, table boxes.
Whilst snuff does not enjoy the popularity it once did, it is gradually re-gaining popularity due to the demonisation of smoking and snuff boxes are still made in surprising numbers.
Since prolonged exposure to air causes snuff to dry out and lose its quality, pocket snuff boxes are designed to be nearly airtight containers with strong hinges, generally with enough space for a days' worth of snuff only.
]]People of all social classes used these boxes when snuff was at its peak of popularity and the wealthy carried a variety of fancy snuff-boxes created by craftsmen in metal-work, jewellers and enamellers.
Some of these were rich in detail and made from precious or expensive materials such as gold, silver and ivory and were often adorned with artwork, gems and precious stones.
Boxes made for the poorer snuff takers were more ordinary; popular and cheap boxes were made in papier-mâché and even potato-pulp, which made durable boxes that kept the snuff in good condition.
Alloys that resembled gold or silver were developed in the 18th and 19th centuries such as the "ersatz" gold Pinchbeck and the silver look-alike, Sheffield Plate.
Other popular materials used in making these boxes include:  Tortoise-shell, a favorite material owing to its satin lustre;  Mother-of-pearl, which was kept in its natural iridescent state, or gilded, or used together with silver; and  Boxes made from exotic materials such as Cowrie shells, enriched with enamels or set with diamonds or other precious stones.
The lids were often adorned with a portrait, a classical vignette, portrait miniature, hardstone inlays, or micromosaic panel.
Some of the most expensive just used subtly different colours of gold.
Perhaps the most widely used semi-precious metal was silver and snuffs of all shapes and sizes were made in that metal during snuff's great popularity.
Even after snuff-taking ceased to be a general habit, the practice lingered among diplomats, doctors, lawyers and other professionals as well as members of professions where smoking was not possible, such as miners and print workers.
Monarchs retained the habit of bestowing snuff-boxes upon ambassadors and other intermediaries as a form of honor.
As Talleyrand explained, the diplomatic corps found a ceremonious pinch to be a useful aid to reflection in a business interview.
At the coronation of George IV of England, Messrs. Rundell and Bridge, the court jewellers, were paid £8,205 for snuff-boxes for gifts to foreign representatives.
Today snuffboxes are collected at many levels – the high-end of the market being reserved for gold boxes that have been jewelled or have original art work on them, or boxes with provenance linking them to world figures, such as Napoleon or Lord Nelson.
Some of the most expensive are French and German 18th century examples, and the record auction price for a German box is £789,250 (about US$1.3 million), bid in 2003 at Christie's in London.
Modern snuff boxes are made from a variety of woods, pewter and even plastic and are manufactured in surprising numbers due, largely, to snuff's resurgence amongst tobacco connoisseurs and smokers.
This has been driven by online special interest sites such as Snuffhouse.org and a new generation of retailers.
New silver snuff boxes are still marketed by the companies Ari.
D. Norman and Regnas. 
The German name has largely ousted the original English name "marchpane" with the same apparent derivation: "March bread."
(The word "marchpane" occurs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Act 1, Scene 5, Line 9.)
"Marzapane" is documented earlier in Italian than in any other language, and the sense "bread" for "pan" is Romance.
The origin could be from the Latin term "martius panis", which means "bread of March".
However, the ultimate etymology is unclear; for example, the Italian word derives from the Latin words "Massa" (itself from Greek Μάζα "Maza") meaning pastry and "Pan" meaning bread, this can be particularly seen in the Provençal "massapan", the Portuguese "maçapão" (where 'ç' is an alternative form for the phoneme 'ss') and old Spanish "mazapán" - the change from 'ss' to 'z' in Latin words was common in old Spanish and the 'r' appeared later.
Though, it could also be derived from martis pan, bread of March.
Among the other possible etymologies set forth in the Oxford English Dictionary, one theory proposes that the word "marzipan" may be a corruption of Martaban, a Burmese city famous for its jars.
The Real Academia Española suggests the idea of the Spanish word mazapán to be derived from the Hispanic Arabic بسمة pičmáṭ, which is derived from the Greek παξαμάδιον.
Another source could be from Arabic موثابان "mawthābān" "king who sits still."
The Arabic, Latinized as "matapanus", was used to describe a Venetian coin depicting an enthroned Christ the King.
These coins were stored in ornate boxes.
From about the fifteenth century, when the coins were no longer in circulation, the boxes became decorative containers for storing and serving luxury sweetmeats.
One such luxury that crept into the box in the sixteenth century is the now-famous almond-flavored marzipan, named (at least proximately) after the box in which it was stored.
However, if marzipan has its origin in Persia, it is not unlikely that the name may come from Marzban (in Persian: مرزبان, derived from the words Marz مرز meaning "border" or "boundary" and the suffix -bān بان meaning guardian), a class of margraves or military commanders in charge of border provinces of the Sassanid Empire of Persia (Iran) between 3rd and 7th centuries CE.
It is also a possibility that the origin of this dessert and the origin of the term come from different geographical places.
The ship was designed to serve as a passenger and cargo liner to Australia, and was launched on 12 September 1908 by Mrs J. W. Taverner, wife of the Agent-General of Victoria.
It had 100 first class cabins, eight state rooms and a salon whose panels depicted its namesake flower, as well as a luxurious music lounge complete with a minstrel's gallery.
As well as these luxurious quarters, "Waratah" was intended to serve the strong emigrant trade from Europe to Australia.
On the outward journey her cargo holds would be converted into large dormitories capable of holding almost 700 steerage passengers.
On the return journey she would be laden with goods, mainly foodstuffs.
She was fitted out for carrying refrigerated cargo, could carry food and stores for a year at sea, and had an on-board desalination plant that could produce 5,500 gallons (25,000 litres) of fresh water a day.
She did not carry a radio, which was not unusual for the time. 
Traditionally gift boxes used for promotional and seasonal gifts are made from sturdy paperboard or corrugated fiberboard.
These boxes normally consist of a base and detachable lid and are made by using a die cutting process to cut the board.
The box is then covered with decorative paper.
Gift boxes can be dressed with other gift packaging material, such as decorative ribbons and gift tissue paper. 
Several types of boxes are used in packaging and storage.
A corrugated box is a shipping container made of corrugated fiberboard.
These are most commonly used to transport and warehouse products during distribution, and are rated according to the strength of the material or the capacity of the finished box.
A folding carton (sometimes called a box) is fabricated from paperboard.
The paperboard is printed (if necessary), die-cut and scored to form a blank.
These are transported and stored flat, and erected at the point of filling.
These are used to package a wide range of goods, intended either for one-time (non-resealable) use or as a storage box for the remaining goods.
* A variant of the folding carton is the gift box, used for birthday or Christmas gifts and often wrapped in decorative wrapping paper; this type is usually of much lighter construction than a similar-sized paperboard box meant for packaging and distribution.
A "set up" box (or rigid paperboard box) is made of stiffer paperboard, permanently glued together with paper skins that can be printed or colored.
Unlike folding cartons, these are assembled at the point of manufacture and transported already "set-up".
Set-up boxes are more expensive than folding boxes and are typically used for protecting high value items such as cosmetics, watches or smaller consumer electronics.
A crate is a heavy duty shipping container originally made of wood.
Crates are distinct from wooden boxes, also used as heavy duty shipping containers.
For a wooden container to be a crate, all six of its sides must be put in place to result in the rated strength of the container.
The strength of a wooden box, on the other hand, is rated based on the weight it can carry before the top or opening is installed.
* A variant of the wooden box is the wooden wine box or wine crate, originally used for shipping and storing expensive wines,but nowadays for decorative or promotional purposes or as a storage box instead of for protection during shipping.
A bulk box is a large box often used in industrial environments.
It is sized to fit well on a pallet.
Depending on locale and specific usage, the terms carton and box are sometimes used interchangeably.
The invention of shipping containers helped advance the globalization of commerce.