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 "PORTORICO" with palm leaves growing from behind, and iconographic representation of America as an indigenous Caribe seated on the plinth supporting the vase, wearing a feathered headress and smoking a pipe. There is a palm basket in the foreground, and a sailing ship and round building in the background. The base has maker's mark of three triangles on short stems, for the 'Three Bells Factory' in Delft, which registered its mark from 1750 to 1778 (with Willem Van Der Does). Dutch factories started registering their marks in the mid 18th century although a factory such as 'The Three Bells' was established in 1675. There was a similar tobacco jar in a 1978 London exhibition, decorated with the same scene with the jar labeled "MACUBA" and the insignia for the Dutch East India Company, "V.O.C." (Vereenigde Ooost-Indische Compagnie), and the The Bells Factory mark. The globular-shaped jar has a narrow neck and rounded shoulders tapering to a flat base. The brass lid is topped by a finial over a stepped base.
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