Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer)., Title from dealer's catalog., Acquired as having been owned by Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Note that this snuffbox is not mounted in gold., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Ditto, red colour, mounted with gold. (Description of previous lot to which ditto refers: A curious old green colour papier mâché French snuff box, mounted with gold.)
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., Also available as a digital reproduction., and 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.
