
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
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Provenance:
With Garry Atkins, London;
British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired from the above in 1989)
This form of vessel was commonly found in the Flemish countries throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and contained live coals from which a pipe could be lit. Dutch and Northern European paintings of this period frequently depict these vessels in tavern scenes, often placed on the floor.