Tobacco mortar

1680 - 1720

The rasper is in the shape of an Eastern woman dressed à la Turque. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a similar rasper. See C. Ferment, Les rapes à tabac, in L'Estampille, no. 168, April 1984, p 45.

• Places and dates

  Dieppe, 1680? - 1720? (Production)

• Materials

  Ivory

• Category

  Smoking materials

• Object number

  S80/1337

• IPR status

  Public domain