Tobacco jar, made as a reminder of the award on January 26, 1787 by the Academy Royale et Patriotique of Valence, of an honorary prize to Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk (1752-1837) and Cornelis Kraijenhoff (1758-1840 ), The square pot has a separate lid and an inner lid of silver-plated metal with a silver button. The pot rests on a widened, straight-walled base with an imposed, stepped bottom edge, which is supported by four molded legs. The legs have a right angle and a corrugated contour on the inside, ending in volutes. The contour of the legs is continued in the wall of the base, inside this wall is worked away with lattice work of arches with rosettes. The body is closed off at the top by a widened edge corresponding to the base, above which a recessed mouth edge. Pearl frames are provided at the top along the base, at the bottom along the top edge and along the corners of the area between them. The walls of the legs, base and upper edge are decorated in gloss stitch with fields with geometric edges. The four sides of the pot are all engraved with an oval field within a rectangle that has an edge of laurel leaves on two opposite sides (A and C), and a culot on each other (B and D) in each corner, always on a shaded stock. The oval fields are all engraved with a text or a representation: on A: VALENTIAE DELPHINORUM / Societati Regiae / Quae / A. PAETS from TROOSTWYK / et /C.R.T. KRAYENHOFF. C.J. FIL./Praemio Ornavit / MDCCLXXXVII [in memory of the Royal Academy of Valence in the Dauphiné, which A. Paets van Troostwijk and C.R.T. Krayenhoff C.J. son honored with a prize, 1787], on B: A torch surrounded by a snake against the background of a dark cloudy sky with lightning bolts, on C: The coat of arms of the Dauphiné region [afterwards the Drôme], crowned with the French royal crown, for crossed palm branches, on D: A landscape in a thunderstorm, with houses and a church where lightning strikes and a fallen haystack under a destroyed roof. The flat bottom edge o
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