[Madame du Deffand's snuff box with portrait of Tonton] [realia]
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16721022
Description
- Title
- [Madame du Deffand's snuff box with portrait of Tonton] [realia]
- Alternative Title
- Louis XV gold snuff box
- Creator
- Roucel, Louis, -1787
- Contributor
- Gosset, Isaac, 1713-1799, sculptor.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1777]
- Publication Place
- Paris, France
- Description
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A snuff box, silver gilt (vermeil) over brass, with a portrait in wax of Madame du Deffand's dog Tonton. She bequeathed the box to Horace Walpole in 1780. It was displayed in the Tribune (Cabinet) in Strawberry Hill.
Title devised by curator.
Text from the 1784 Description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill: 66 [Tribune]. In the other glass case: ... A gold snuff-box with the image in wax of mad. Du Deffand's dog, Tonton, whom she bequeathed with this suff-box and her MSS. to Mr. Walpole.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A circular shaped gold snuff box, engine turned, with the image in wax of Madame la Marquise du Deffand's dog, Tonton, which she bequeathed, with the snuff box and her manuscripts, to Horace Walpole.
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Engraved inscription inside: This box with the portrait of her dog Tonton was bequeathed by Madame La Marquise du Deffand to Mr. Horace Walpole 1780. Inscribed on rim: Roucel Orf. du Roy, Paris. - Provenance
- Given in 1778 by Madame de Luxembourg (1707-87) to Madame Du Deffand(1696-1780); bequeathed to Horace Walpole by Madame Du Deffand; 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 15, lot 20, bt Thomas Raikes, Esq, £14.14.0; 1899, June 11, Christie's, Different Properties, lot 106, £23.2.0. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, 1940.
- Extent
- 1 item : height 3 cm, diameter 7 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- sh-000349 On display in Reception Area
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Snuffboxes
Decorative object - Material
- mixed materials ; and silver over brass portrait in wax.
- Resource Type
- three-dimensional form
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14034026
- Object ID (OID)
- 16721022
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