Snuffbox
Classification:
Date:
1780-1830
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 2 1/8 x 1 3/16 in. ( 2.5 x 5.4 x 3 cm )
Description:
Oval box of sheet tinned iron with hinged bottom and hinged three-fourth top with applied wriggleworked strips and diamond shaped medallion.
Object Number:
INV.2193
Gallery Label:
According to a note found in the snuffbox, this was the property of Ruth Brown Hodgkins (1765-ca. 1852), born in Hookset, New Hampshire. She married William Hodgkins (d. 1842), a Revolutionary soldier, in 1784.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
5217
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Pipe bowl: ...3187 (black)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1880-1900
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 x 3 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. ( 10.2 x 9.8 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Pipe bowl with circular flaring rim with impressed geometric pattern and saw-toothed edge around hole for tobacco and abstract flower with impressed decoration around hole for stem; tobacco and stem openings connected by L-shaped joint.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.8474
Marks:
incised: on back of rim around opening for tobacco: illegible inscription, not in English
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
5199
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Pipe bowl: head figure w/ long nose, bead eyes
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. ( 7.9 x 7 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Carved light colored wood pipe bowl in shape of a man's head with a very long nose and pointing chin; some bark remains above head's glass eyes.
Object Number:
INV.8462
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
5148
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Snuff box
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1824
Medium:
Tortoise shell, gold, brass, glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 8.3 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Tortoise shell snuffbox with hinged lid, rectangular in shape with oval medallion with gilded cameo portrait of unidentified gentleman mounted on lid under glass.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William E. Brower in memory of her husband
Object Number:
1942.443
Marks:
painted: in relief on medallion beneath cameo: "MOREL FACIT"
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this snuffbox was presented to Lafayette to the Brower family of New York, with whom he stayed.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
4954
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Pipe bowl: St. Nicholas Soc. of NY, head fig. w/tricrnr hat
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 23 3/8 x 3 in. ( 5.1 x 59.4 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Earthenware pipe with yellow glaze made for the Saint Nicholas Society in New York; bowl is molded into shape of a man's head in tricorn hat and eighteenth
century costume; tapering shaft terminates in white mouthpiece.
Object Number:
INV.7887
Marks:
molded: on side of shaft: "SAINT NICHOLAS SOCIETY/NEW YORK"
stamped: on shaft: "L. Fiolet/St. Omar/France"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
4737
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Snuffbox
Classification:
Date:
1775-1825
Medium:
Horn, silver, other metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. ( 4.4 x 7.3 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Snuffbox with hinged silver lid, in the shape of a cornucopia, with circular medallion at the center of the lid, shield-shaped medallion beneath snap at front of lid.
Object Number:
INV.7596
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
4659
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Snuffbox with lid
Classification:
Date:
1820-1850
Medium:
Papier-mâché, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. ( 1.9 x 7 cm )
Description:
Circular papier-mâché snuffbox with painted image of a woman in brown dress and white apron standing next to man in blue with red cape and rifle.
Object Number:
INV.5468ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
4602
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Pipe bowl
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 1 in. ( 7 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Carved wooden pipe bowl with geometric and floral decoration; hinged, domed brass cover with decorative cone and ball finial on top mounted on brass cylinder; stem end has brass cuff.
Object Number:
INV.8465
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
2354
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Snuffbox
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. ( 3.8 x 8.9 x 3.5 cm )
Description:
Elaborately carved snuffbox with hinged lid; central carving on lid is a medallion with a man and a woman standing, facing one another holding sheaves of wheat; the medallion is surrounded by stylized foliate decorations; a medallion on the bottom of the box depicts a man's head in profile; the sides of the box have attached, carved protrusions with foliate decoration.
Object Number:
INV.7676
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
1897
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Pipe bowl
Classification:
Date:
1850-1925
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 in. ( 3.2 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Redware pipe bowl covered in clear glaze.
Object Number:
INV.8576
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
1895
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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