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snuff box

human history
  • Description

    circular wooden carved snuff box contains twelve piece of tessarae, circular carved design, used in mosaics

    three handwritten notes inside the box read:

    “Tessera used in Mosaics in St. Sophia Constantinople.”

    “The large Tesserae are part of those used in the Mosaics on the Albert Monument, Hyde Park are English work.”

    “Tesserae forming Mosaics broken by a Turk from ceiling of church of St Sophia Constantinople 1855.”

  • Place
    England
  • Associated Place

    Constantinople/Turkey

  • Accession Number
    1932.233
  • Accession Date
    Unknown
  • Other Id

    796 (1885 Mackelvie Catalogue)

    17740 (ethnology)

    M110 (miscellaneous)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • snuff box, 1932.233, 796, 17740, M110, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 15 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
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