Tobacco box with in the lid a mounted plaque of mother-of-pearl with scenes concerning salt extraction, Jan Diederik Pont, 1755 Canvas Print
The round, six-lobed box rests on three leaf-shaped legs that comprise the profiled lower edge. The box widens towards the lid. In the lid is mounted a round mother-of-pearl plaque. Depicted are different stages of salt extraction: in the foreground three men throw salt into a barrel, to the left of which a man sits in a hut weighing the salt; in the background a sailing ship sails at sea with the god Hermes above it; two men carry a basket of salt out of the mine and two men chop into the mine with a pickaxe and a scoop of salt. In the box is still the original pewter inner plate.
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