Vintage tin with ice scene "Kolfen op het ijs" by Hendrik Avercamp for KG coffee/tea

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Vintage tin with ice scene "Kolfen op het ijs" by Hendrik Avercamp for KG coffee/tea

• Manufacturer: wed. J.Bekkers & Son Amsterdam
• Brand: Kanis & Gunnink
• Period: 1940 to 1950

Description
Rectangular yellow biscuit tin from Kanis and Gunnik coffee and tea. This tin is equipped with a hinged lid with rolled edge. The box has a seamed longitudinal seam and bottom. The decoration of this tin consists of a light yellow background with red crackle lines and a gold-coloured decorative edge.

On top of the lid in the frame is a reproduction image with an orange ear with an image of "flasks on the ice" on the river IJssel near Kampen after Hendrik Avercamp. Lid with hinged hinges attached "Flasks on the ice" after a painting by Hendrik Avercamp. Gold-coloured inside with text on the inside of the lid: 'Kolfen op het ijs' on the river IJssel near Kampen. Embossed bottom: tea KG coffee

Condition
This tin is in good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 7.5 cm.
• Length: 17 cm.
• Width: 10.5 cm.

Kanis & Gunnink is a Dutch company that produces coffee.

In 1880 Hendrik Kanis established a shop in oriental goods in Kampen. Frans Gunnink came to work here, but wanted to resign in 1885, after meeting Paul Krüger in Kampen. The South African state president visited the Netherlands to gain support for the Boer Republic. Gunnink had accepted the invitation to emigrate and become a teacher in South Africa. However, Kanis did not like to see him go and offered Gunnink a co-management position in the company, which would continue under the name Kanis & Gunnink. In 1969 Kanis & Gunnink was taken over by Douwe Egberts.

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 colourful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. His works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. 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 watercolour, 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.

Avercamp probably painted in his studio on the basis of sketches he had made in the winter. Avercamp was famous even abroad for his winter landscapes. The passion for painting skating characters probably came from his childhood as he practised skating with his parents. The last quarter of the 16th century, during which Avercamp was born, was one of the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age.