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Vintage tin biscuit drum by Victoria with image of embossed "The Night Watch"

SKU: 1112

Vintage tin biscuit drum by Victoria with image of embossed "The Night Watch"

Large ggold/silver-colored tin drum with an embossed image of "the Night Watch" for VICTORIA biscuit.

  • Maker: Verblifa
  • Manufacturing date: 1950

Description
Superb rectangular tin with hinged lid. The decoration of this tin is silver and black. On the lid an embossed image of the Night Watch. Tendril motifs on sides. Text: REMBRANDT N.V.Biscuit factory VICTORIA Dordrecht Holland

  • Height: 6.5 cm.
  • Length: 31 cm.
  • Width: 23 cm.

Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings.

The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)), the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt leads the eye to the three most important characters among the crowd: the two gentlemen in the center (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the woman in the center-left background carrying a chicken. Behind them, the company's colours are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. The figures are almost life-size.

Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the arquebusiers in a natural way, with the woman in the background carrying the main symbols. She is a kind of mascot herself; the claws of a dead chicken on her belt represent the clauweniers (arquebusiers), the pistol behind the chicken represents clover and she is holding the militia's goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf, a traditional motif of the arquebusiers. The dead chicken is also meant to represent a defeated adversary. The colour yellow is often associated with victory.


Victoria
Victoria was a biscuit and chocolate factory that originated in Belgium in 1896. Familiarity was acquired by the eponymous chocolate brand. At the peak of its existence, the company owned factories in Koekelberg, in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, and in Boulogne-Billancourt in France, and there were approximately 4,000 employees.

The biscuit production was moved to Victoria-Dordrecht, which in the meantime was completely in the hands of Gebeco. The building was split up and used by several companies to finally be converted into habitation in 2002. The municipality Koekelberg bought the central part with the intention to house the Belgian Chocolate Village.

Gebeco came into the hands of Générale Biscuit in 1978, which itself was created by the merger of the cookie factories Céraliment and LU Brun.

Cookie production
In Dordrecht, Victoria built a new modern factory south of the city that was opened in 1980. In 1986, Générale Biscuit was taken over by BSN-Gervais-Danone, which in 1994 changed its name to Groupe Danone. The group chose to fully promote the biscuit brand LU. Until 1992, Dordrecht was still producing under the brand name Victoria. In 2002, the biscuit factory finally closed and production was transferred to Herentals in Belgium. The building was sold to Continental Bakeries-Haust.

Emblem
Until 1938 the emblem was a portrait of the British Queen Victoria. Then came the British grenadier with a big drum.


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