French Mennecy Silver Mounted Soft Paste Porcelain Pug Dog Snuff Box pillar It would have been used

It would have been used to cook over an open fire

with the exterior decorated with stylized

1881-1930)

custom chain

This small antique spice box or tea caddy was crafted with a raised lid with swing bail handle and a simple rectangular body with applied corners for both decorative and reinforcing purposes

French Mennecy Silver Mounted Soft Paste Porcelain Pug Dog Snuff Box pillar It would have been usedDETAILS An antique, soft paste porcelain recumbent pug dog form snuff box all in white. This form of box was used for the storage of sweets to perfume the breath in the 18th century. This example has an oval base with silver mounts; the underside with raised floral sprig decoration. Pug dogs were imported by the Dutch East Indies Trading Company in the 18th century and became a popular pet of the upper classes in France and England. For a similar