Tobacco box, 1748
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1748
Rectangular tobacco box with chamfered corners and a hinged lid. On the lid, a landscape is engraved within a frame showing two peasants and a peasant woman milking a cow, against a background of a church and several houses. On the bottom is an engraved medallion with a pastoral scene of a flute-playing shepherd and a half-undressed woman, flanked by a pattern of four-petalled flowers connected by bands between quartered flower-like lozenges. Marked, signed and dated. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-8045; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique engraving; measurements height 3.2 cm x width 6.2 cm x length 15 cm x weight 219.5 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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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- engraving
- Measurements
- height 3.2 cm x width 6.2 cm x length 15 cm x weight 219.5 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 3.2 cm x width 6.2 cm x length 15 cm x weight 219.5 g
Identification
- Original title
- Tabaksdoos
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-NM-8045
- Museum classification
- tobacco box
Catalogue references
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