Dutch silver tobacco jar

  • Zilveren tabakspot Amsterdam Jan Bot
  • Zilveren tabakspot Amsterdam Jan Bot
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Dutch silver tobacco jar

Jan Bot

Amsterdam, 1754

550 grams;  14 cm high

 

This Régence tobacco jar, partly engraved with scrolling foliage, has a detachable lid in similar outline. Also struck with an assay mark of 1795 for Amsterdam.

 

Provenance:

Premsela & Hamburger, Amsterdam, 1979

Niemeyer collection, Tabaksmuseum, Groningen, 2011