[Sca-cooks] marzipan boxes

[Johnna Holloway]

I rather suspect that someplace in that long long list of printed references
and source materials, an art historian mentioned marzipan boxes and that
is why the National Gallery of Art latched upon that phrase.
They look like preserve boxes to me also.

Johnnae


>  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
>> Still Life with Sweets and Pottery, 1627 by Juan van der Hamen
>>
>
> 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
>