Snuff Box
This rare example of an eighteenth-century American snuff box made of gold may have been made by its goldsmith Myer Myers in honor of the opening of a new Masonic lodge in New York. The cover of the box depicts a biblical scene: the young shepherd David being presented to King Saul. The name of the new lodge was King David’s Lodge, and Myers was its Senior Warden.
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Credits
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall P. Blankarn Gift, 1966.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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