Description:
Dutch delft tobacco jar decorated in blue with a domed brass lid. One side of the jar is decorated with a large globular vase labled "RAPPE" with palm leaves growing from behind. 'Rappee' was a coarse kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker tobacco leaves, originally obtained by rasping a piece of tobacco. The vase is standing on a tall plinth, on which sits an iconographic representation of America as an indigenous Caribe woman who is wearing a feathered headress and smoking a pipe. There are two sailing ships on the right with flying birds overhead; and a palm basket in the left foreground in front of three smaller containers and a box marked "VOC", the insignia for the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Ooost-Indische Compagnie). The base has the maker's mark "B[?] P", possibly for Paulus Verburg or Van der Burgh, proprietor of "De Vergulde Blompot" of the Gilt Flowerpot from about 1741 to 1764. Although early Dutch potteries had often marked their products, they started formally registering their marks in the mid 18th century and putting those marks on most of their wares. The globular-shaped jar has a narrow neck and rounded shoulders tapering to a flat base. The circular brass lid is topped by a rounded finial over a straight-sided base. There is sealing wax with a string on the inner lip of the jar, and sealing wax on the base, impressed with "DUVEEN, LIVERPOOL".
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