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Twee kwispedoors
Also titled Two spittoons
c. 1715 - c. 1725
- Medium
- faience
- Classification
- spittoon
- Dimensions
- height 8.9 cm x diameter 12.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
- 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
The use of tobacco became extremely popular in the 18th century. Whether chewed or smoked, it produced juices in the mouth that were disposed of in specially designed receptacle called spittoons (also known as cuspidors, derived from the Portuguese word for ‘spitter’). These examples are appropriately decorated with scenes from the tobacco harvest. Enslaved men pick tobacco leaves, while plantation owners sit together smoking, with a few spittoons before them on the table.
