Rare Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Makkum Delft Tobacco Jar with Brass Cover. TONCA

The balustroid body of the tin glazed earthenware jars decorated in shades of blue  with a camulet-smoking Indian under a large tobacco plant with a large covered vase behind him, inscribed with TONCA. Further a large barrel and bales of tobacco on the left inscribed with V for the V.O.C.  With added brass cover with finial.
Marked on the bottom in underglaze blue with the crossed TT for
Tiemen Hiemstra (1867 – 1915)
Koninklijke Tichelaar / Royal Makkum.

MAKKUM - FRIESLAND
The Netherlands - circa 1900.

Height: 25,8 / 31 cm. (11,2  / 12,2 inches.)
Diam.:  22 cm. (8,7 inches.)

Weight: 1.839 grams.

V.O.C. Far East Trade Company
VEREENIGDE OOSTINDISCHE COMPAGNIE.
Established  423 years ago in 1602.
The Dutch East India Company was a power full trading company that helped establish Dutch rule in what is now Indonesia. In 1602 the Dutch government granted the company a monopoly on trade between Asia and the Netherlands. The company also received broad governmental and military powers, including the right to rule territories and to wage war in Asia.
In 1700 the Dutch East India Company had gained control of the cinnamon, clove and nutmeg trade in the East Indies. The Company had trading posts in many Asian countries and ruled parts of what are now South Africa and Sri Lanka and most of present-day Indonesia.