Box
1720-1740 (made)
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Snuff or tobacco box of pressed horn, it has an oval form with straight upright sides. Its base is pierced with eleven small, round holes. The removable lid bears in relief the fictitious coat-of-arms of the Lumber Troop: an escutcheon displaying the moon and a star, a punch-bowl and a lantern. The supporters are figures of Bacchus and Ceres. Below is a motto in a ribbon: 'IN NOTE LAETAMUR'. Flanking the motto is a maker's mark: 'BAKER | FECIT'.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pressed horn |
| Brief description | Snuff or tobacco box, pressed horn, England, 1720-40 |
| Physical description | Snuff or tobacco box of pressed horn, it has an oval form with straight upright sides. Its base is pierced with eleven small, round holes. The removable lid bears in relief the fictitious coat-of-arms of the Lumber Troop: an escutcheon displaying the moon and a star, a punch-bowl and a lantern. The supporters are figures of Bacchus and Ceres. Below is a motto in a ribbon: 'IN NOTE LAETAMUR'. Flanking the motto is a maker's mark: 'BAKER | FECIT'. |
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| Credit line | Gift of Mr. J.H. Burn through The Art Fund |
| Object history | Given to the Museum in 1940 by J.H. Burn of Dipton House, Riding Mill, Northumberland. |
| Historical context | The arms on this small box are an ornament for a tobacco paper designed and engraved by the artist William Hogarth for John Harrison, who kept a tobacco shop in Bell Yard, Temple Bar. Harrison was famous for singing bawdy Bacchanalian songs and was admitted on that account, every evening, into taverns, where he would also sell his wares. Both Hogarth and Harrison belonged to a social organisation known as the 'Lumber Troop' around the year 1730. |
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| Accession number | W.21-1940 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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