So I’ve gotten a couple of questions about everyone’s favorite 1740s does 1980s snuff box! (pictured below. Because honestly, it’s great). So I figured I would address the one that keeps coming up: is it really from the 1740s????
Yes! Yes it is.
So this snuffbox is apart of the 2015 Bettina Looram de Rothschild accession. Pretty much all of the items in the accession are from past Rothschild family members, giving it a pretty solid provenance. There’s also a maker’s mark. Interestingly, the maker, Louis Robin, only operated for a short amount of time (1738-1744), giving the box only a small window to be made in.
Ever since I found out that earthworms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies, I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin, imagine the dark, writhing ecstasy, the sweetness of apples permeating their pores. I offer beets and parsley, avocado, and melon, the feathery tops of carrots.
I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar—though now, it seems, they bear a pleasure so sublime, so decadent, I want to contribute however I can, forgetting, a moment, my place on the menu.
high school is soo funny in hindsight. the entire time you’re there thinking it’s the most important period of your life and then the second you’re out you’re like well that was fucking stupid
