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Tobacco box
French (Paris)
1756–62
Object Place: Europe, Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Marble, silver mounts
Dimensions
18 x 14.8 x 27.9 cm (7 1/16 x 5 13/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.310
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionA silver-mounted Languedoc marble tobacco box, with a serpentine hinged and molded top above a conforming base enclosing cylindrical lidded compartments.
Marks
Discharge Mark: for small work, 1756-1762: a shell (Dennis, 25). It is on all silver mounts except the key.
InscriptionsThe top with a monogram "FB"
ProvenanceJune 19, 1959, sold by Au Vieux Paris (gallery), Paris, to Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897- d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993, gift of the estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)