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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 ...
An early eighteenth-century German Schrank with a traditional display of corals (Naturkundenmuseum, Berlin) In seventeenth-century parlance, both French and English, a cabinet came to signify a collection of works of art, which might still also include an assembly of objects of virtù or curiosities, such as a virtuoso would find intellectually ...
The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.
Box-bed in Austria. A small box-bed (also known as a closed bed, close bed, or enclosed bed; less commonly, shut-bed [1]) is an enclosed bed made to look like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The box-bed is closed on all sides by panels of wood.
Girl inspecting her hope chest, by Poul Friis Nybo, c. 1900 Renaissance hope chest from Florence (15th century) A hope chest , also called dowry chest , cedar chest , trousseau chest , or glory box, is a piece of furniture once commonly used by unmarried young women to collect items, such as clothing and household linen, in anticipation of ...
Sheet Iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C. Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint. This type was used during the Boer War due to a scarcity of matches. A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to ...
An 18th century Iserlohn box (left). An Iserlohn box is a copper or brass box for snuff or tobacco which typically has an engraved, chased or embossed lid depicting an allegorical or rustic scene or an image of Frederick the Great. The boxes date from 18th Century Iserlohn in Westphalia and the Netherlands. [1]
An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.
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