Large vintage tin with medieval cityscape and coat of arms

Large vintage tin with medieval cityscape and coat of arms. 

Description
Large rectangular tin box with hinged transfer lid. This tin has a beige-yellow surface which is slightly marbled. The decoration of the tin box consists of copper corner fittings with wood motif executed in relief. In the middle of the sides in an oval medallion a close-up of a cityscape. Top and bottom with round copper colored balls. Wide edge with wood motif on the bottom.

The lid of this tin has an image of a medieval cityscape in a frame and has two city coats of arms with a crown above it. The lid is slightly curved and has the same wide border with wood motif as the box.

This tin stands on four semicircular feet that have been punched out into the bottom of the tin.

The whole tin box is embossed.

Condition
This tin is in a beautiful brocante, vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 14.5 cm.
• Length: 37.5 cm.
• Width: 26.5 cm.

Cityscape. 
In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design, the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and interstitial space.

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