Tobacco box with a mounted mother-of-pearl plaque with salt extraction scenes, The round, six-lobed box rests on three leaf-shaped legs that comprise the profiled lower edge. The box widens towards the lid. A round mother-of-pearl plaque is mounted in the lid. Various stages of salt extraction are depicted: in the foreground three men throw salt into a barrel, to the left of it sits a man in a hut weighing the salt, in the background a sailing ship is sailing at sea with the god Hermes above it, two men carry a basket of salt out of the mine and two men cut loose in the mine with a pickaxe
Tobacco box with a mounted mother-of-pearl plaque with salt extraction scenes, The round, six-lobed box rests on three leaf-shaped legs that comprise the profiled lower edge. The box widens towards the lid. A round mother-of-pearl plaque is mounted in the lid. Various stages of salt extraction are depicted: in the foreground three men throw salt into a barrel, to the left of it sits a man in a hut weighing the salt, in the background a sailing ship is sailing at sea with the god Hermes above it, two men carry a basket of salt out of the mine and two men cut loose in the mine with a pickaxe and a scoop of salt. The original tin inner plate, salt, weighing, is still in the box, Jan Diederik Pont, Amsterdam, 1755, silver (metal), tin (metal), plaque, h 11 cm × w cm × d cm × w 1487 gr
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