# Pair of biscuit containers

- By: Diederik Willem Rethmeyer (Lehrte, ca. –1821)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Heirs of P.C.E. von Hemert-van der Meulen Bequest
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-14422--e7b62c4568f9e5e5e022d7d935f20ae3)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/PWouI/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.