Snuff Box (Tabatière)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Snuff Box (Tabatière)

Pierre-Nicholas Pleyard (French) · 1768–69; 1776–78

gouache miniatures mounted on gold
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

These miniature paintings are mounted <em>à cage</em>, a practice popular in the mid-1700s that involved setting decorated panels into gold frames to create a box’s walls.

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