Museum number:
APM 20.722 |
Subcollection:
tabakscuriosa |
Title:
tobacco box |
Keyword:
turtle mounted in silver |
Description:
Tobacco box made of silver and turtle with a slightly convex bottom and lid mounted in an upright edge of silver, serrated along the insert, the upright side engraved with leaves, in the center a family crest with twill and three clovers, on the opposite side a grotesque mask head, the ends on the left a standing lion with saber and on the right the Virgin with staff with freedom hat in the Dutch garden. Without hinge. |
Date:
Period | 1740 - 1755 |
Dimensions:
General | Width | 8 cm |
Length | 9,6 cm | |
Thickness | 4,4 cm |
Characteristics
Material | schildpad (dierlijk materiaal) |
Technique | gedrukt materiaal |
Colour | bruin |
Other materials | zilver (metaal) |
Oher techniques | gegraveerd |
Other colours | blank |
Traces of use | geen |
Production
Contintent | Europa |
Region International | West-Europa |
Country | Nederland |
Acquisition
Year | 2011 |
Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, <1980-2011, nr DD144 |
Comments
Brongers dateert de doos op c. 1700 en vermeldt als wapen dat van het geslacht Van der Meers. |
Literature
Don Duco, De Hollandse tabaksdoos. Amsterdam, 2012. afb 7. Dit exemplaar. |
Don Duco, aaaDe Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor het determineren. Amsterdam, 2025. hfst 1, p , afb 47. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
Parijs, Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, tentoonstelling "Les 50 pipes les plus extraordinaires de la célèbre collection Niemeyer", 1 oktober - 20 november 1966. |
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping. |
Breda, Turfschip, tentoonstelling "Toeback-Tabak", 11-20 april 1981. |
Schoonhoven, Nederlands Zilvermuseum, tentoonstelling "Designed by Nature", 4 oktober 2018 - 10 juni 2019. |
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