Antique Art Nouveau Whitmans Salmagundi Chocolate Candy Box Ad Tin 9"

Description

1920’s Whitman’s Salmagundi 2 lb candy / chocolate advertising tin featuring a litho printed gilded mosaic design and art nouveau portrait of a blonde woman by Alphonse Mucha. Copyright S.F.W. & S. Inc.

“Whitman's is one of the largest and oldest brands of boxed chocolates in the United States. Whitman's confections have been produced since 1842, originally by Stephen Whitman in Philadelphia and currently by Kansas City, Missouri-based Russell Stover Candies.”

“Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work.”

Condition

Good Overall - Scuffs/scrapes to paint; some slight rusting inside

Dimensions

8.5” x 7” x 2.5” (Width x Depth x Height)