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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The showstopper at the Sotheby’s watch auction in New York on Thursday wasn’t a timepiece at all, but a pair of singing bird snuff boxes—two intricately decorated gold cases from the 1800s containing ...

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 ...

The term used most often to describe cult British sketch show Snuff Box is dark. Very, very dark. That’s about right for a surreal comedy set in a social club for professional hangmen. The Guardian ...

As a highly idiosyncratic British sketch series, Snuff Box defies easy characterization via its sheer inventiveness and irreverence. The show follows the travails of hangmen (yes, hangmen) Matt Berry ...