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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SHOE-SHAPED SNUFF The taking of ‘snuff’ (ground imported tobacco, which stimulated
BOXES the senses in the manner of nicotine in cigarettes) was a widely
Qianlong period, circa 1780 accepted social practice in 18th century European polite society. The
The snuff boxes in the form of ladies high-heeled shoes with slender correct manner of offering, accepting and inhaling a ‘pinch of snuff’
upturned toes, painted with loose flower sprays in famille rose and gilt, was standardized at least as early as 1734. By 1781 Jean Sebastian
a molded strap tied from the counter to the tongue is painted in gilt Mercier wrote that ‘a well-dressed man should have a different
with a cell diaper pattern below a sharp tooth-edged band, the heels snuffbox for every day of the year’. A cargo list for three Portuguese
of cylindrical form, mounted with a later European hinged white-metal ships arriving in Lisbon in 1756, recorded 842 enameled copper (i.e.,
cover. ‘Canton enamel’ rather than rarer and more fragile porcelain) tobacco
4in (10cm) wide (2). boxes and snuff boxes from China.
$2,000 - 4,000 See also another example with pointed toe, square heel and buckle at
the tongue offered as lot 91 in this sale.
乾隆時期 約1780年 粉彩描金鞋形鼻烟盒一對
References: Santos & Allen, 2005, p. 130, no. 46, another shoe snuff
Published: box; Cohen & Cohen, 1999, no. 21, another example; Sargent, 1991,
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 99, no. 57 p. 160, another.

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014
年-B，頁99，圖版編號57

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