# Snuffbox

- By: Jean Saint (Saint-Lô, ca. –na 1)
- Date: 1750
- Medium: gold (metal)
- Classification: snuffbox
- Dimensions: height 2.3 cm x width 6.1 cm x depth 4.4 cm x weight 68 g
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-1966-11--87dbe5ab469c88fdc4ae57522e4dc3d0)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/hVqwF/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Jean Saint probably did not make the lid of this snuffbox himself but imported it from London. The lid depicts the Roman god Vertumnus, disguised as an old woman in order to seduce the nymph Pomona.