Lot n° 99
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Tobacco Jar - Lot 99
Tobacco Jar
Brussels earthenware, circa 1800
A large and superb merchant’s tobacco jar, closed with a pointed lid of gilded brass, made of fine white Brussels earthenware with blue decoration. On the body, where two lion heads with blue manes serve as handles, is a design of a compact terrace from which stylized vegetation of leaves and twigs emerges. Two young men with mustaches, dressed in military uniforms and holding a tobacco stalk, stand there, each smoking a long calumet from which thick smoke billows. The design surrounds the inscription “Tabac de St-Omer,” which is itself surmounted by a large, stylized blue flower with slender leaves, known as the “flower of the Indies.”
Engraved in a stamp: “Stevens Bruxelles.”
H 41 cm
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