Museum number:
| APM 18.083 |
Subcollection:
| smokers' utensils |
Title:
| tobacco jar |
Keyword:
| fer de Berlin, card players |
Description:
Tobacco jar of cast iron with square shape on legs, flat lid with relief. The four square walls are identical with a standing man playing the violin in a cartouche framed by c-volutes, a cape over the shoulders, the ornaments framed to the edges with narrow relief bands. Lid central in high relief two card-playing men sitting on three-legged stools at a round table, one with a brimmed hat, the other with a pointed cap, holding a card on the back, outside the medallion on the lid graceful asymmetrical volutes and leafwork. Internally an original square lead inner jar with lead inner lid with aker-shaped brass handle. |
Date:
| Period | 1830 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 7.68 in (19.5 cm) |
| Width | 6.1 in (15.5 cm) |
| Material | cast iron (metal) |
| Technique | cast metal |
| Colour | black |
| Other materials | lead (metal) |
| Oher techniques | cast metal |
| Other colours | greyish |
| Finish | gezwart |
| Traces of use | geen |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Berlin (state) |
| Town | Berlin |
| Year | 2006 |
| Provenance | Londen, Alfred Dunhill Pipes Limited, 1952-2006 |
| Londen, Alfred Dunhill, <1940-1952, nr E46 |
| Catalogus Christie's South Kensington, Londen, 22-23 May 2006, lot 858, afgebeeld. Vgl. APM 31.249 sterk overeenkomstige pot met ornamentale dekselknop. |
| Chicago, The Chicago Pipe Show, april 2003. |
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