Circular snuff box
date: label: Date
content: 1779
name: label: Maker
content: Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Circular, with detachable cover; gold, the cover, sides and base decorated with silhouette landscapes of trees and birds painted in puce color on silver foil under enamel; matte gold borders studded with small silver bosses; lined with silver foil stamped to simulate engine-turning, under amber-colored horn.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-48-8-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Circular snuff box
label: Type
content: Circular snuff box
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stamped and rolled gold, cut opalescent glass, metallic foil
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 2.5 x 7 cm (1 x 2 3/4 in.)