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Twee kwispedoors
Also titled Two spittoons
c. 1715 - c. 1725
- Medium
- faience
- Classification
- spittoon
- Dimensions
- height 8.6 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
In the 18th century many men chewed chewing tobacco, regularly spitting out the unwanted juices in specially designed vessels called spittoons. These examples are appropriately decorated with scenes from the tobacco harvest. Enslaved men pick tobacco leaves, while plantantion owners smoke. There are a number of spittoons on the table.
