W-VB MARK, WILLEM VAN BEEK AT DE TWEE WILDEMANNEN OR WEDUWE VAN DEN BRIEL AT 'T FORTUYN, 1760-1770

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A Dutch Delft blue and white tobacco box, cover and inner press cover
W-VB MARK, WILLEM VAN BEEK AT DE TWEE WILDEMANNEN OR WEDUWE VAN DEN BRIEL AT 'T FORTUYN, 1760-1770
After a silver model, the canted rectangular body and domed cover decorated with scrolled cartouches depicting pastoral landscapes alternating trellised panels, the manganese-red enhanced finial modelled as a seated gentleman holding a roll of tobacco, a Carotte, the flat inner press cover with four floral sprays and ball finial, a chip to underside press cover
18 cm. high (3)

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Lot Essay

This tobacco box was intended to contain smoke tobacco (instead of snuff tobacco). The inner cover was used to press the tobacco in order to retain its scent and taste.

See Mededelingenblad Vrienden van de Nederlandse Ceramiek, no. 54, ill. no. 29, p. 22 for a related tobacco box marked V;beek for Willem van Beek at De Twee Wildemannen;
J.D. van Dam, Gedateerd Delfts aardewerk, Zwolle, 1991, p. 130, ill. p. 131 for a similar rectangular example dated 1769 and marked A.D.W.

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