AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...

Staffordshire potters in 19th-century England liked to depict humorous people in everyday activities. The figurines were the only way to see what a brave lion tamer or important political figure ...

I can't be in love if it's plastic to live on my own just seems tragic but we'll raise our swords high when our day comes you thought it was gold but it was bronze so ...

Before diving into the highly bizarre 2006 BBC Three sketch-comedy series Snuff Box, it may help to check out the DVD set’s “Taking Control Of Your Body” featurette, in which an eclectic array of ...

Throughout history, tobacco has had its own long and varied history. From the middle of the 1600s to the present day, snuff (pulverized tobacco) has had an interesting place in the history of art and ...

What’s your personality like? Long before BuzzFeed or the Myers-Briggs personality test, there was phrenology—a pseudoscience that used the lumps and bumps of human skulls to tease out the secrets of ...

A Russian imperial snuff box that the family of a Bulgarian minister claims was stolen from the diplomat's son during the Allies' bombing of Europe. Christie's The family of a late Bulgarian minister ...

When Benjamin Franklin left Paris in 1785 after several years representing American interests in France, Louis XVI gave him a gorgeous parting gift. It was a portrait of King Louis, surrounded by 408 ...

This snuff box was given to me in the 1960s by a former patient when I was a practicing physician in Colorado. She had noticed that I had a small collection of old medical items. The box is wood, 5 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This music box was likely made by ...