Museum number:
| APM 1.226 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| woman with coral pearl necklace |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with stummel bowl, knob heel and straight insertion stem with five constrictions. Bowl front hand-painted in rectangle with smooth gold leaf frame the bust of a woman with a triple coral necklace, her hands crossed, a green satin dress with purple sleeves under her neck a scarf. Heel intaglio size number "8", stem end blue stripe. Original gilded bronze valve cover with an octagonal pointed top and edge with balls as air inlet, lid internal label with handwritten collection number "234". Original mounting with black buffalo horn moist reservoir with two reinforcement bands of gilded metal with embossed pearl row, ascending cherry wood stem and buffalo horn top with gilded smooth band with locking ring and curved mouth piece with button. |
Date:
| Period | 1830 - 1845 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 12.2 in (31 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 4.29 in (10.9 cm) |
| Width | 1.42 in (3.6 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | cherrywood (wood), buffalo horn (animal material), metal |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Berlin (state) |
| Town | Berlin |
| Maker | Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (?) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 62 |
| Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008 |
| Don Duco, Stummels, twee eeuwen smaakmakend. Amsterdam, 2020. afb 4. Dit exemplaar. |
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