Museum number:

APM 18.083

Subcollection:

tabakscuriosa

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:

GeneralHeight19,5 cm
Width15,5 cm
Characteristics
Materialgietijzer (metaal)
Techniquegegoten metaal
Colourzwart
Finish lood
Traces of use geen
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalBerlijn (deelstaat)
CityBerlijn
Acquisition
Year 2006
Provenance Londen, Peter Tilley
Londen, Alfred Dunhill Pipes Limited, 1952-2006
Londen, Alfred Dunhill, <1940-1952, nr E46
Comments
Catalogus Christie's South Kensington, Londen, 22-23 May 2006, lot 858, afgebeeld.
Exhibition
Chicago, The Chicago Pipe Show, april 2003.

If you have any comments, suggestions or additions, click here to send us an email