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Description: | A brass tobacco box, oblong with rounded corners. Engraved on one side with a square plaque with an inscription (illegible) in cursive, with scrolls above and beneath. To either side figures of a woman and child and of horsemen departing. The other side has a similarly engraved plaque surrounded by a row of houses and to the left a camel. Around the sides is a written inscription in cursive and three running hounds.
Material: brass
tobacco box made in Holland, Europe, c 1700, (1929.401). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.35324 | Go to resource |
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