Vintage tin box with closure and the painting "IJsvermaak" by Hendrick Averkamp

Vintage tin box with closure and the painting "IJsvermaak" by Hendrick Averkamp. 

Description
Old tin box with hinged lid and closure. The decoration of this tin consists of various embossed details on the lid. On the sides of this tin, we see two paintings, one of which is titled "IJsvermaak" which could be translated as "Winter fun" by Hendrick Averkamp.

The Image on the front is considerably discolored. The one on the left is practically no longer visible.

However, the same images are also on the back and right side. These show a nice image of the two paintings in question. The tin itself has a beautiful patina due to its age.

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with multiple traces of use and various age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 16 cm.
• Length: 30.2 cm.
• Width: 20.2 cm.
   

Hendrick Avercamp, IJsvermaak

Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) – May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569–1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was deaf and mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen).

As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes.

Avercamp's work enjoyed great popularity and he sold his drawings, many of which were tinted with watercolor, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors. The Royal Collection has an outstanding collection of his works.

Avercamp died in Kampen and was interred there in the Sint Nicolaaskerk.

Patina
Patina also referred to as stainless or copper rust is a dull corrosion layer that forms on the surface as a result of oxidation of the metal upon exposure to air and moisture. The color of this layer can vary from green to dark brown.

Patina is also a general term to indicate that a certain object radiates the test of time. The weathering gives the object a "lived-through" appearance.

The object has then become patinaus.

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