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Description: | Base for a snuff box, in the form of a pill box, made from the pell of a bergamot fruit, presumably pressed into shape. The object has a buff coloured background with polychrome designs. There is a red and black band around the circumference of the object. A creature is depicted on the underside of the base, possibly a maker's mark.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 26.9.62/7i
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 26.9.62/7i | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | snuff boxes peels fruit pigment Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-131486 | Go to resource |
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