Cigar display in the form of a slave statuette Contributor: Nantes History Museum, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany
This cigar display, depicting a slave presenting a tray, references the colonial system set up in the West Indian plantations in which the commercial elite of Nantes participated. The slave is presenting one of the American products then fashionable in lounges: tobacco.
- Origin:
- Nantes, France
- Date:
- late 18th century
- Item type:
- Houseware
