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Tobacco box

creator: Hamer, Henrich Johann (1727 - ca 1804)

date: ca 1760

place of creation: Iserlohn (Germany)

object type: tobacco box, box / case

material: brass, copper

technique: forging, drop forging

dimensions: H 3.2 x L 13.9 x W 4.3 cm

signature:

bottom of box: I.H. HAMER. F.

Rococo madness! Rococo fascination in Silesia (18th–21st century), Four Domes Pavilion, branch of the National Museum in Wrocław

Eberle, Martin, Bestansdskatalog der Sammlung unedler Metalle. Europäisches Kunsthanderk aus Bronze, Messing, Kupfer und Eisen vom 12. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, Leipzig 1996

provenance: 1967, transfer

on display: Miracle-Workers, Small Inventions (room VI), Main Building

National Museum in Wrocław Department of Technical Culture

inventory number: MNWr XV-1913

copyrights to object: PUBLIC DOMAIN

permalink: https://muzeumcyfrowe.mnwr.pl/en/exhibit/p/mnwr_xv-1913

person depicted: Frederick the Great (1712-1786) – King of Prussia

keywords: Africa (personification) | America (personification) | Asia (personification) | Battle of Lobositz (1756) | Battle of Prague (1757) | Europe (personification) | pipe | coat of arms | king | technical culture | lion (heraldic charge) | man | Netherlands (coat of arms) | Prussian eagle | pipe smoking / cigarette (activity) | man portrait | Rococo | fasces | battle scene | genre scene | sailing ship | sailboat | soldier