Cigar box


second half of the 19th century Mahogany, brass, incrustation length and width 21.5 cm Square-shaped, standing on eight feet profiled as leaves with brass studs shaped as floral motifs and lions' heads with leaf-shaped endings. The whole surface is richly incrusted with brass ornaments of leaves and tendrils. At the sides appliques of brass cartouches with double eagles and figures of smoking men and women. The lid holds a figure of a reclining smoker. Inside two horizontal bars with openings for 49 cigars. Donated in 1937 by Anka Jelacic. M. Skiljan, Iz obiteljskih ostavstina I., Zagreb, 1978, catalogue number 151.




HPM/PMH-025126