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Pair of biscuit containers
Also titled Paar desserttrommels
Diederik Willem Rethmeyer (Lehrte, ca. –1821)
1791
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- tin
- Dimensions
- height 7.6 cm x width 10.7 cm x depth 7.6 cm x weight 617 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Heirs of P.C.E. von Hemert-van der Meulen Bequest
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
These two plain containers are decorated only with a beaded edge. Their form is determined by their function. During dessert, biscuits were served from the round container, and 'oublies' (small rolled-up waffles) from the rectangular one. Such silver biscuit containers almost always come in pairs and are a typically Dutch phenomenon. Their shape may have been derived from simpler models made of tin.
