Live Auction 3010The Decorative Arts Sale
A Dutch silver tobacco-pot and cover
Lot 183

A Dutch silver tobacco-pot and cover

LEEUWARDEN, 1785, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, ALSO STRUCK WITH LATER DUTCH DUTY MARK

Closed3 October 2012

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EUR 5,625

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A Dutch silver tobacco-pot and cover
Leeuwarden, 1785, maker's mark indistinct, also struck with later Dutch duty mark
Circular on four paw feet, the sides applied with portrait medallions flanked by hanging garlands, alternated with ribbons, the detachable domed cover with conforming decoration, and surmounted by an urn finial, the base inscribed Door de Heer Jan V. Sloterdijk En Sijne Huisvrouw Grijtje Nijsloot Is desen Present Gedaan Aan Eelco Napjus Majoor der Stadt Sneek Ten Dankbaarheidt wegens 't Curatorschap over voornoemde Grijtje Nijsloot den 11 Maij 1785, marked on base
16.5 cm. high
622 gr.

Specialist note

Eelco Napjus (1728-1803) was major and executor of Sneek, and a well-known historian of the town. He published his Geschiedkundige Kronijk en Beschrijving van de Stad Sneek, known as the 'Chronicle of Napjus', in 1772. Napjus was guardian to Grijtje Nijsloot, born 1770, who married Jan Wybrands van Sloterdyck (1770-1818), with whom she had a daughter Wybrandia in 1796.