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Container with a rectangular bottom and rounded top. White body with designs in black and brown. Yellow stripe down the center and yellow handle on top.

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Gien Faience Factory

Humidor

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Description

Maker

Gien Faience Factory (French, 1821-), manufacturer

Title

Humidor

Year

ca. 1865-1870

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions

18.4 x 18.4 x 12.7 cm (7 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 5 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the estate of Shirley A. Goldberg

Object Number

1992.122.1

Type

Ceramics

Exhibition History

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

Apr 09, 2022 – Jan 12, 2025

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Tobacco has been an important commodity for thousands of years, its uses ranging from medicinal and mood-altering to recreational and ceremonial. Containers for storing tobacco include silver boxes, ceramic cigar humidors, and Native American leather pouches adorned with European trade beads and jingle cones cut from tin snuff cans.

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Gien Faience Factory (French, 1821-), manufacturer

Humidor, ca. 1865-1870

Earthenware with tin glaze, polychrome metal oxides, and glaze

18.4 x 18.4 x 12.7 cm (7 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 5 inches)

Gift of the estate of Shirley A. Goldberg 1992.122.1

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