Tobacco box

Unknown

17th century · Brass · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The box is shaped like a book. Its cover shows a couple seated outside their house, within a hexagonal frame. Flowers are depicted in the corners. Inscribed below is: Goet begin (Good beginning). The underside is similarly engraved, the scene now reversed, and is inscribed: Goet bekage (Good end). This box would have been an appropriate gift for a newly married couple. With lined rims.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Brass

Culture

Dutch

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883