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Item 1382 of 2719

Vintage tin "The Syndics" by Rembrandt, Victoria

SKU: 1141

Vintage blik "The Syndics" by Rembrandt, Victoria. 

  • Maker: Verblifa
  • Manufacturing date: 1950

Beautiful old vintage tin "The Syndics" by Rembrandt. The famous painting "The Syndics" by Rembrandt is shown embossed on the hinged lid.

  • Height: 5.5 cm.
  • Length: 23 cm.
  • Width: 15.5 cm.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting), although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative and gave rise to important new genres. Like many artists of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jan Vermeer of Delft, Rembrandt was also known as an avid art collector and dealer.

The Sampling Officials (Dutch: De Staalmeesters), also called Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, is a 1662 oil painting by Rembrandt. It is currently owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It has been described as his "last great collective portrait".

The men (with the exception of Bel who is an attendant as indicated by his calotte) are drapers who were elected to assess the quality of cloth that weavers offered for sale to members of their guild. Their one-year terms in office began on Good Friday and they were expected to conduct their inspections thrice weekly. The Dutch word staal means 'sample' and refers to the samples of cloth that were assessed. The inspectors used pliers to press the seals of their city (front) and guild (reverse) into penny-sized slugs of lead that were specially affixed to record the results of the inspection. There were four grades of quality, the highest was indicated by pressing four seals and the lowest by pressing only one.

The men are appraising a length of Persian-style fabric against exemplars from a swatch book.

 

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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