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Pair of dessert drums
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
These two plain containers are decorated only with a beaded edge. Their form is determined by their function. During dessert, biscuits were served from the round container, and oublies (small rolled-up waffles) from the rectangular one. Such silver biscuit containers almost always come in pairs and are a typically Dutch phenomenon. Their shape may have been derived from simpler models made of tin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePaar desserttrommels. 1791. Diederik Willem Rethmeyer. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
