Museum number:

APM 9.282

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sitting woman with child at the breast

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with stummel bowl, heel and straight insertion stem with five windings. Bowl front embossed applique of a seated woman with child at the chest, rear child with palm branch and cornucopia, bowl opening four concentric rings held together by a circulating ribbon. Original brass valve cover with flat top and s-shaped clamp.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.6 in (6.6 cm)
Width1.18 in (3 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialstoneware (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourblue
Finish applique, wit
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryEngland
Region nationalStaffordshire
TownBarlaston
MakerWedgwood
Acquisition
Year 1986
Provenance Birmingham, antiekmarkt
Literature
Saskia de Bodt, Jos Koldewey, Museumaanwinsten, het Leidse Pijpenkabinet. LochemMaandblad Antiek, XXII/2, 1988. p 97. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 58, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 58, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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