1775 J. Lovell Let. 26 June in (1875) XIII. 186 1 Tobacco Jar; 1 Large Lead.n d.o
1857 T. B. Gunn 26 Hair-brush and tobacco-jar jumbled among your shirt-collars.
1967 M. Kenyon xxv. 252 A tobacco jar bounced..to the floor, where it exploded into fragments.