Tobacco box with an embossed cornucopia and a basket of flowers among ornaments on the lid
Also known as: Tabaksdoos met op het deksel een gedreven hoorn van overvloed en een bloemenmand tussen ornamenten
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1765
The scalloped box, with a straight reverse, has a hinged lid. The cast wall is S-curved above a low, straight foot rim. The lid has a low cast, moulded wall with a raised lip at the front.
An embossed plate is set in the top. A central cartouche, composed of S- and C-scrolls with rocailles, foam edges, flowers, a cabochon, and fields with scale patterns and latticework, is flanked by similar cartouches. The central cartouche contains a basket of flowers, which on either side both a cornucopia, all on a punched ground. The composition, which is symmetrical as a whole, has many asymmetrical elements. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-3876; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); measurements height 3.8 cm x width 14.8 cm x depth 7.1 cm x weight 266 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)
- Measurements
- height 3.8 cm x width 14.8 cm x depth 7.1 cm x weight 266 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 3.8 cm x width 14.8 cm x depth 7.1 cm x weight 266 g
Identification
- Original title
- Tabaksdoos met op het deksel een gedreven hoorn van overvloed en een bloemenmand tussen ornamenten
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-NM-3876
- Museum classification
- tobacco box
Catalogue references
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