Tobacco spot, made as a reminder of the award on January 26, 1787 by the Académie Royale et Patriotique van Valence, of an honorary price to Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk (1752-1837) and Cornelis Kraijenhoff (1758-1840), Johannes Schiotling, 1787 The square pot has a loose lid and an inner cover made of silver -plated metal with a silver button. The pot rests on a widened, straightforward base with an imposed, stepped bottom edge, which is worn by four cast legs. The legs have a right angle and on the inside a corrugated contour, ending in volutes. The contour of the legs is continued in the w
Tobacco spot, made as a reminder of the award on January 26, 1787 by the Académie Royale et Patriotique van Valence, of an honorary price to Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk (1752-1837) and Cornelis Kraijenhoff (1758-1840), Johannes Schiotling, 1787 The square pot has a loose lid and an inner cover made of silver -plated metal with a silver button. The pot rests on a widened, straightforward base with an imposed, stepped bottom edge, which is worn by four cast legs. The legs have a right angle and on the inside a corrugated contour, ending in volutes. The contour of the legs is continued in the wall of the base, inside, this wall is opened with rosettes with rosettes. The body is closed at the top by a widened edge that corresponds to the base, above which an indenting mouth edge. At the top along the base, bottom along the top edge and along the corners of the part in between, pearl lists have been installed. The walls of legs, base and upper edge are decorated in gloss stitch with fields with geometric edges. The four sides of the pot are all engraved with an oval field within a rectangle that shows an edge of bay leaves on two opposite sides (A and C), and on the other two (B and D) in each corner a culot, Always on an shaded stock. The oval fields are all engraved with a text or a performance: on A: Valentiae Delphinorum/Societati Regiae/quae/A. Paets van Troostwyk /ET Krayenhoff. Ornavit/ mdcclxxxvii [in memory of the Royal Academy of Valence in the Dauphiné, who A. Paets van Troostwijk and Krayenhoff Son has honored with a prize, 1787]; On B: a torch, surrounded by a snake, against the background of a dark cloudy smell with lightning bolts; on C: the coat of arms of the Dauphiné region [then the Drôme], crowned with the French royal crown, for crossed palm branches; On D: a landscape in a thunderstorm, with houses and a church where lightning strikes and a fallen haystack under a destroyed shelter. The flat lower edge of
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