Tobacco Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750
notes: label: Description
content: Oblong, Louis XV bombé tobacco box with reverse-curve corners, a cast rocaille or ruffled C-scroll base and four shell-and-volute feet; conforming cover is surmounted by a teardrop-shaped, shell-and-scroll finial or knop. Six marks stamped on box bottom underside, a crowned "X" (overstruck) above four shaped pseudo hallmarks (left to right), "N.K" between scrolls, a cherub with trumpet and palm branch (overstruck), a bird on branch, and a lion rampant, all over a symmetrical, scroll-bordered reserve with "ENGELS GE(????)LYST / HART TINN" in raised serif letters. No marks on cover.
label: Description
content: Maker is Nicholas Kraan of Amsterdam, working circa 1750.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: North Holland, Amsterdam
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0071
label: catalog number
content: 64.0071
label: accession number
content: 250795
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, tobacco
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 14.605 cm x 9.2075 cm