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Lot 139

A Dutch Delft Tobacco jar and brass cover, circa 1760

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£500 - £600

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A Dutch Delft Tobacco jar and brass cover, circa 1760

Decorated with an elaborate baroque cartouche of naturalistic leaf scrollwork and elements of fretwork, enclosing the word RAPPEE 38cm high, B:P to the base (some abbrasion to the rim) (2)

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Rappee (from the French râpé, "grated") is the name later given to a coarse, pungent snuff made from dark tobacco. Snuff takers carried graters with them, and early 18th-century graters were often made of ivory and beautifully carved. The grated tobacco would then be transferred into smaller snuffboxes.

The BP mark on the base is that of 'De Vergulde Blompot', a factory owned by Pieter Verburg from 1756-1789, and registered by him in the (Delft) register from 1764. Another tobacco jar and cover by the same factory was sold at Bonhams Oxford, 10 April 2013, lot 110.

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