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Description: | This tin was made for Peek Frean. Huntley & Palmers produced an even more elaborately shaped tin a few years later in 1894, perhaps in response to this one, with a related middle-eastern theme, the 'Arabian Nights' tin which features exoticly dressed figures, including Ali Baba, from the famous collection of folk tales of the same name. Sir Richard Burton translated the tales in 16 volumes, published 1885-1888, and his unexpurgated versions helped to shape Victorian perceptions of the Muslim world. Scenes from Persia, India, Arabia were a popular subjects for paintings and other visual forms during this period, often allowing the artist to indulge in fantasies involving seductive women and dangerous men. At a more popular level the Arabian Nights provided characters and plots for colourful pantomimes, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba being the two most famous central characters from this source. It is at this cultural level, pantomime, rather than with the slightly risque orientalist paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912), that this tin should be placed. The scene on the side of the tin illustrated here shows the most famous of Ali Baba's adventures - his encounter with the forty thieves hidden in oil jars. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Peek Frean | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | bird sofa environment bong narrative costume Ali Baba recreation people balcony animal | Temporal: | start=1888-01-01; end=1888-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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