Tobacco box with a mother-of-pearl plaque mounted in the lid depicting scenes related to salt extraction
Also known as: Tabaksdoos met in het deksel een gemonteerde plaque van parelmoer met scènes betreffende de zoutwinning
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1755
The round, six-lobed box rests on three leaf-shaped feet that clasp the profiled lower rim. The box widens towards the lid. A round mother-of-pearl plaque is mounted in the lid.
Depicted are various stages of salt extraction: in the foreground three men throw salt into a barrel, to the left a man sits in a hut weighing the salt; in the background a sailing ship sails on the sea with above it the god Hermes; two men carry a basket with salt out of the mine and two men loosen salt in the mine with a pickaxe and a shovel. The box still contains the original pewter inner plate. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1996-1; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal), mother of pearl, tin (metal); measurements height 11 cm x width 19.6 cm x diameter 19.6 cm x weight 1487 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.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal), mother of pearl, tin (metal)
- Measurements
- height 11 cm x width 19.6 cm x diameter 19.6 cm x weight 1487 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 11 cm x width 19.6 cm x diameter 19.6 cm x weight 1487 g
Identification
- Original title
- Tabaksdoos met in het deksel een gemonteerde plaque van parelmoer met scènes betreffende de zoutwinning
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1996-1
- Museum classification
- tobacco box
Catalogue references
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