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A Dutch silver Tobacco Box with marine scenes, Nicolaas Christiaan Hooft, Amsterdam, 1761
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Elongated octagonal with shaped top and base, the top engraved with a shore battery firing at passing ships, in the foreground a rowboat and the masts of a sunken ship, the base engraved with a ship exploding while a fleet of seven ships sails off to the left, with two sailors swimming to safety, the sides with scrolling foliage, marked inside base
6 oz
186 g
length 5 ¼ in.
30.4 cm.
Catalogue noteAn elaborately engraved tobacco box of similar form by this maker 1754 is described and illustrated in John Endlich Marius van Dam, Nederlandse zilveren Tabaksdozen 1650-1800, no. 26, pp. 78-79. Another by him of 1756, with perpetual calendar and moon phases and a poem, no. 29 is on pages 88-89.
6 oz
186 g
length 5 ¼ in.
30.4 cm.
Catalogue noteAn elaborately engraved tobacco box of similar form by this maker 1754 is described and illustrated in John Endlich Marius van Dam, Nederlandse zilveren Tabaksdozen 1650-1800, no. 26, pp. 78-79. Another by him of 1756, with perpetual calendar and moon phases and a poem, no. 29 is on pages 88-89.
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Elongated octagonal with shaped top and base, the top engraved with a shore battery firing at passing ships, in the foreground a rowboat and the masts of a sunken ship, the base engraved with a ship exploding while a fleet of seven ships sails off to the left, with two sailors swimming to safety, the sides with scrolling foliage, marked inside base
6 oz
186 g
length 5 ¼ in.
30.4 cm.
Catalogue noteAn elaborately engraved tobacco box of similar form by this maker 1754 is described and illustrated in John Endlich Marius van Dam, Nederlandse zilveren Tabaksdozen 1650-1800, no. 26, pp. 78-79. Another by him of 1756, with perpetual calendar and moon phases and a poem, no. 29 is on pages 88-89.
6 oz
186 g
length 5 ¼ in.
30.4 cm.
Catalogue noteAn elaborately engraved tobacco box of similar form by this maker 1754 is described and illustrated in John Endlich Marius van Dam, Nederlandse zilveren Tabaksdozen 1650-1800, no. 26, pp. 78-79. Another by him of 1756, with perpetual calendar and moon phases and a poem, no. 29 is on pages 88-89.
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
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