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Twee tabakspotten
Also titled Two tobacco jars
Johannes Schiotling (Göteborg, 1730–1799)
1782
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- tobacco jar
- Dimensions
- diameter 12.7 cm x weight 668 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Pairs of silver tobacco jars adorned many Dutch tables. In crafting these pieces, Johannes Schiotling opted for a rather conservative design. The straight shape and laurel garland exude the atmosphere of Neoclassicism. Meanwhile, the rocailles shell motifs and the curled leaf at the base still align with an earlier pictorial idiom, namely that of the Rococo.
