Museum number:
APM 20.722 |
Subcollection:
smokers' utensils |
Title:
tobacco box |
Keyword:
turtle mounted in silver |
Description:
Tobacco box made of silver and turtle with a slightly convex bottom and lid mounted in an upright edge of silver, serrated along the insert, the upright side engraved with leaves, in the center a family crest with twill and three clovers, on the opposite side a grotesque mask head, the ends on the left a standing lion with saber and on the right the Virgin with staff with freedom hat in the Dutch garden. Without hinge. |
Date:
Period | 1740 - 1755 |
Dimensions:
General | Width | 3.15 in (8 cm) |
Length | 3.78 in (9.6 cm) | |
Thickness | 1.73 in (4.4 cm) |
Characteristics
Material | tortoise shell (animal material) |
Technique | pressed material |
Colour | brown |
Other materials | silver (metal) |
Oher techniques | engraved |
Other colours | white |
Traces of use | geen |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | The Netherlands |
Acquisition
Year | 2011 |
Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, <1980-2011, nr DD144 |
Comments
Brongers dateert de doos op c. 1700 en vermeldt als wapen dat van het geslacht Van der Meers. |
Literature
Don Duco, De Hollandse tabaksdoos. Amsterdam, 2012. afb 7. Dit exemplaar. |
Don Duco, aaaDe Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor het determineren. Amsterdam, 2024. hfst 1, p , afb 47. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
Parijs, Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, tentoonstelling "Les 50 pipes les plus extraordinaires de la célèbre collection Niemeyer", 1 oktober - 20 november 1966. |
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping. |
Breda, Turfschip, tentoonstelling "Toeback-Tabak", 11-20 april 1981. |
Schoonhoven, Nederlands Zilvermuseum, tentoonstelling "Designed by Nature", 4 oktober 2018 - 10 juni 2019. |
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