Pipe and Tobacco Box

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CultureAmerican

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Pipe and Tobacco Box

Datec. 1750–1850

Made inUnited States

MediumPine

Dimensions12 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (32.4 × 19.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.56.35

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Bayou Bend

Object Type

WOOD OBJECTS

DescriptionA box like this would have contained clay pipes for smoking tobacco. Clay pipes, both imported and domestic, were common from the early 1600s well into the 1800s.
Provenance[Joseph J. Carbone, Boston]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, November 2, 1956; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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