Antique Smoking Frog Humidor Tobacco Canister Ceramic Canister 6.25” Late shops 1800s

Product Name: Antique Smoking Frog Humidor Tobacco Canister Ceramic Canister 6.25” Late shops 1800s
Antique Smoking Frog Humidor Tobacco Canister Ceramic Canister 6.25” Late 1800s early 1900s. This humidor is preowned and in fair to good condition. There are a few flea bites and a hairline crack, which I highlighted in the photos. Humorous and highly decorative figural Majolica ceramic tobacco jar in the shape of a suave frog in a double-breasted red smoking jacket and black ascot, thoughtfully smoking a pipe. In the Victorian era, pipe smokers kept their tobacco in a decorative tobacco jar or humidor. Figural tobacco jars were produced mainly in ceramic, typically heads or full figures of people and animals, generally 12 inches or less in height. Most such jars were produced in Bohemia (now part of the Czech shops Republic) and Germany in the middle to late Victorian era, when pipe smoking replaced snuff as the preferred means of using tobacco.