Round blue and white biscuit tin with cherubs, chubby child figure with wings

Round blue and white biscuit tin with cherubs, chubby child figure with wings.

• Manufacturer: General Biscuits Nederland B.V.
• Manufacturing date: 1980

Description
Round blue and white biscuit tin manufactured by General Biscuits Nederland B.V. This tin is equipped with a separate lid. The decoration of this tin box consists of a dark blue background with white elegant round details. The tin box has a folded longitudinal seam. On the lid in relief a depiction of two cherubs who caught a fish with a fishing net.

Condition
This biscuit tin is in a good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Inside shows some traces of oxidation. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 7.5 cm.
• Diameter: 20 cm.

Putto
A putto is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged. Originally limited to profane passions in symbolism, the putto came to represent the sacred cherub (plural cherubim), and in Baroque art the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God. A putto representing a cupid is also called an amorino (plural amorini) or amoretto (plural amoretti).

The more commonly found form putti is the plural of the Italian word putto. The Italian word comes from the Latin word putus, meaning "boy" or "child". Today, in Italian, putto means either toddler winged angel or, rarely, toddler boy. It may have been derived from the same Indo-European root as the Sanskrit word "putra" (meaning "boy child", as opposed to "son"), Avestan puθra-, Old Persian puça-, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) pus and pusar, all meaning "son", and the New Persian pesar "boy, son".

Putti, in the ancient classical world of art, were winged infants that were believed to influence human lives. In Renaissance art, the form of the putto was derived in various ways including the Greek Eros or Roman Amor/Cupid, the god of love and companion of Aphrodite or Venus; the Roman, genius, a type of guardian spirit; or sometimes the Greek, daemon, a type of messenger spirit, being halfway between the realms of the human and the divine.

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