Vintage tin with Portrait of a man with red turban

Vintage tin with Portrait of a man with red turban. 

Description
Rectangular tin with hinged lid. On the lid a picture of the painting by Dutch painter Jan van Eyck "Portrait of a man with red turban". The decoration of the tin consists of a predominantly red background with ornaments in black and gold. A black band with golden decorations decorates the tin over the lid and the sides. The decorations on the tin are embossed. There is a heraldic weapon on the ends of the tin. On the underside, this tin has four hemispherical legs.

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

Size

• Height: 11.5 cm.
• Length: 20.2 cm.
• Width: 13.4 cm.

Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban is an oil painting by the Early Dutch painter Jan van Eyck, from 1433. 

The man is not, as it is commonly thought, wearing a turban, but a chaperon with the ends that normally hang down tied up over the top, which would be a sensible precaution if it was worn whilst painting.

The painting has been in the National Gallery, London, since 1851, having been in England since Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel acquired it, probably during his exile in Antwerp from 1642-44.

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