Museum number:
APM 18.083 |
Subcollection:
smokers' utensils |
Title:
tobacco jar |
Keyword:
fer de Berlin, card players |
Description:
Tobacco jar of cast iron with square shape on legs, flat lid with relief. The four square walls are identical with a standing man playing the violin in a cartouche framed by c-volutes, a cape over the shoulders, the ornaments framed to the edges with narrow relief bands. Lid central in high relief two card-playing men sitting on three-legged stools at a round table, one with a brimmed hat, the other with a pointed cap, holding a card on the back, outside the medallion on the lid graceful asymmetrical volutes and leafwork. Internally an original square lead inner jar with lead inner lid with aker-shaped brass handle. |
Date:
Period | 1830 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 7.68 in (19.5 cm) |
Width | 6.1 in (15.5 cm) |
Material | cast iron (metal) |
Technique | cast metal |
Colour | black |
Finish | lood |
Traces of use | geen |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Berlin (state) |
Town | Berlin |
Year | 2006 |
Provenance | Londen, Peter Tilley |
Londen, Alfred Dunhill Pipes Limited, 1952-2006 | |
Londen, Alfred Dunhill, <1940-1952, nr E46 |
Catalogus Christie's South Kensington, Londen, 22-23 May 2006, lot 858, afgebeeld. |
Chicago, The Chicago Pipe Show, april 2003. |
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