Silver Tobacco-Box with a Mother-of-Pearl Lid with Christ Appears Before the Personifications of the Parts of the World

Ian Bernhard Barckhuysen, Peter Schemkes, c. 1730 - c. 1750

Tobacco box. Silver, Zutphen, 1750, by Peter Schemkes, the mother-of-pearl lid by Jan Barckhuysen. Given by Mr and Mrs de Bruyn-van der Leeuw, 1961.

  • Artwork typetobacco box
  • Object numberBK-1961-6
  • Dimensionsheight 7.2 cm x length 15 cm x width 12.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicsmother-of-pearl (lid) and silver (box)

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Silver Tobacco-Box with a Mother-of-Pearl Lid with Christ Appears Before the Personifications of the Parts of the World

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-1961-6

  • Description

    Rechthoekige tabaksdoos van zilver met afgeschuinde hoeken. In het deksel zit een plaque van parelmoer met gesneden voorstelling van Jesaja 45:22, voorgesteld door een allegorie op de vier werelddelen. Plaque gesigneerd: I. B. BARCKHUYSEN. fecit.. Doos gemerkt: Zutphen, jaarletter Z? = 1750, en meesterteken PS = Peter Schemkes.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • mark, on the box: ‘

      PS (master’s mark)

      the mark for the city of Zutphen

      4/Z (year letter for 1750)

       

      ’
    • inscription, on the scroll, incised: ‘WENDT U TOT MŸ EN WORDT BEHOUDE O ALLE GY LIEDEN DER AERDE iesaias XLV V 22.’
    • signature, incised: ‘I.B. BARCKHUYSEN. fecit.’
    • inscription, on the bottom of the box, incised: ‘

      I.H. De Bruijn

      ’

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Creation

  • Creation

    • paarlemoerwerker: Ian Bernhard Barckhuysen, Harderwijk
    • silversmith: Peter Schemkes, Zutphen (stad)
    • printmaker: after Bernard Picart

  • Dating

    c. 1730 - c. 1750

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    mother-of-pearl (lid) and silver (box)

  • Dimensions

    height 7.2 cm x length 15 cm x width 12.5 cm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1961

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; I.H. de Bruijn, 1932;{I.H. de Bruijn acquired the box in 1932 from the estate of his uncle’s widow, Note RMA.} donated by Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-Van der Leeuw, Spiez, to the museum, 1961

Documentation

    • Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (1961), p. 118, p. 120 (afb. ).
    • W.H. van Seters, 'Parelmoerkunstenaars in de 18de eeuw, het werk van J.B. Barckhuysen, J.C. Konsé en C. La Motte', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 17 (1966), p. 249, afb. 1.

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  • Silver Tobacco-Box with a Mother-of-Pearl Lid with Christ Appears Before the Personifications of the Parts of the World
  • Silver Tobacco-Box with a Mother-of-Pearl Lid with Christ Appears Before the Personifications of the Parts of the World