Tobacco box with a bathing woman
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1724 - 1750
Tobacco box of silver. Mounted in the lid is a silver plaque engraved on the upper side and underside with the depiction of a nymph bathing by a stream in a landscape; the depictions are identical but in mirror image.
The depiction is coloured as though it were yellow copper, red copper, and pewter. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1986-27; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal), metal, silver (metal); measurements height 2.5 cm x length 12.4 cm x width 7.4 cm x weight 214 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- copper (metal), metal, silver (metal)
- Measurements
- height 2.5 cm x length 12.4 cm x width 7.4 cm x weight 214 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 2.5 cm x length 12.4 cm x width 7.4 cm x weight 214 g
Identification
- Original title
- Tabaksdoos met een badende dame
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1986-27
- Museum classification
- tobacco box
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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