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Snuff Box (Tabatière)
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About this work
This box is decorated with figures of antiquity associated with love: winged cupids, dancing nymphs, and representations of the Greek goddess of love. These scenes are inspired by antique cameos, intricately carved gemstones crafted in ancient Greece and Rome. This interest in ancient iconography, symmetry, and classical compositions of gods and goddesses was characteristic of 18th-century neoclassicism.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSnuff Box (Tabatière), 1777–78. François Chazeray (French). Gold and enamel; overall: 2.9 x 3.9 cm (1 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, 1958.124
