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Vintage round tin drum with roses on craquelure surface

SKU: 2381

Vintage round tin drum with roses on craquelure surface

Description
Large tin drum with beautiful image of red and yellow roses with green leaf on a craquelure background. This drum has a dark red lid. This drum is one of the well-known Tomado tins, but is not marked on the bottom. It once had a sticker, but it has been removed.

Condition
This tin drum has traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

  • Height: 27 cm.
  • Diameter: 18 cm.

Tomado was a Dutch company for household products, particularly in plastic coated wire.

The company was founded in Dordrecht in 1923 by the Van der Togt brothers. Tomado stands for Van der Togt Massa Articles Dordrecht. Originally, it was a small company that produced simple wallpaper brackets made of copper wire, which could be used mount photos on wallpaper. After the Dutch Association of Housewives gave the company the assignment to develop a metal drainer it started to grow and soon a factory in Zwijndrecht was opened.

After the Second World War the reconstruction period began in which Tomado-products symbolized the modern housekeeping. They became very popular and almost every household possessed one or more Tomado products. Due to the popularity of the brand, the company grew rapidly in the 1950s.

Popular products mainly concerned Tomado racks made of iron wire which came in the colors white, black, red, yellow and blue, reminding of the creations of Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. Very well known were the bookshelves with supports of wire steel and metal shelves in different pastel colors. These are great collector's items at this moment.

Craquelure (French: craquelé, Italian: crettatura) is the fine pattern of dense cracking formed on the surface of materials and can be induced by drying, aging, intentional patterning, or a combination of all three. The term is most often used to refer to tempera or oil paintings, but it can also develop in old ivory carvings or painted miniatures on an ivory backing. Recently, craquelure has been proposed as a way to authenticate art. (French: craquelé, Italian: crettatura) is the fine pattern of dense cracking formed on the surface of materials and can be induced by drying, aging, intentional patterning, or a combination of all three. The term is most often used to refer to tempera or oil paintings, but it can also develop in old ivory carvings or painted miniatures on an ivory backing. Recently, craquelure has been proposed as a way to authenticate art.


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