[Sca-cooks] marzipan boxes

[Stefan li Rous]

  Johnnae mentioned:
> I was doing an image search today and came
> across this one
> http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=45891+0+none
>
> It's too good to pass up and it's easy to get to since it's in the
> National Gallery of Art. There are a number of detail images too.
>
> Still Life with Sweets and Pottery, 1627 by Juan van der Hamen
>
> Doughnuts anyone?

The review of the painting mentioned marzipan boxes. Which ones are  
these? The round, very thin ones with tops? To me, those look very  
much like the boxes you can buy in the hobby stores made out of very  
thin wood. They look more like these in the painting are made of thin  
wood, not marzipan. Or by "marzipan boxes" is the reviewer talking  
about boxes made to hold marzipan items rather than that the boxes  
are made of marzipan?

If the latter, what makes these particular boxes "marzipan boxes"? Do  
we have other period (or close to period) texts which mention  
"marzipan boxes"?

Stefan
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