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A rare Dutch Delft blue and white Imperial Brazilian armorial tobacco jar and a brass cover

DE DRYE KLOKKEN MARK, CIRCA 1825

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A rare Dutch Delft blue and white Imperial Brazilian armorial tobacco jar and a brass cover
DE DRYE KLOKKEN MARK, CIRCA 1825
Decorated with an oval ribbon-tied cartouche enclosing the elaborate crowned coat-of-arms of the Brazilian Empire, underneath inscribed No=2, the flat cover with ball finial
28.5 cm. high (excl. cover) (2)

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Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms of the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889) consists of a globe intertwined with the Cross of the Order of Christ, enclosed by a circular band with twenty stars, surmounted by the crown of the Empire and flanked by a coffee and tobacco branch. It is noteworthy that the Delft painter of this tobacco pot only depicted thirteen stars and changed the coffee branch to a tobacco branch as well.
This coat-of-arms finds its origin in the Portuguese coat-of-arms. The Portuguese colonial rule preceded the Empire and from 1645 onwards the Portuguese heirs to the thrown received the title of 'Prince of Brazil'.

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