Museum number:
APM 1.247 |
Subcollection:
porcelain pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
woman with mask in her hand |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a high cylindrical bowl, knob heel and straight insertion stem with four windings. Bowl front in rectangle with smooth gold leaf frame a fashionably dressed woman with hair in a net, a forehead and a hat with rose, in her raised right hand a black mask, right in the background a double column. Original silver lid with closing ball, lid edge stamped silver mark "13", lid internal label with handwritten collection number "213". heel intaglio size number "8", stem end under glaze blue stripe. Bowl internally with ink two words (unreadable). Original mounting with porcelain moist reservoir with a widened base with three notches, gold rings along the openings and wooden stop to protect the bowl, ascending cherry wood stem with ten-sided silver ferrule on the top with silver mark ("13") and buffalo horn stem with button mouth piece. |
Date:
Period | 1830 - 1840 |
Dimensions:
General | Length | 12.01 in (30.5 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 4.13 in (10.5 cm) |
Width | 1.34 in (3.4 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
Pipe type | insert pipe |
Pipe shape | cylindrical oval |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
Colour | white |
Other materials | buffalo horn (animal material), silver (metal), cherrywood (wood) |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud |
Traces of use | ongerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Berlin (state) |
Town | Berlin |
Maker | Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur |
Mark | "13" (ingeslagen dekselring) |
Year | 2008 |
Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 62 |
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008 |
De zak is kenmerkend voor Berlijn vanaf 1820. |
Don Duco, Weichselhouten pijpenroeren. Amsterdam, 2016. afb 5. Dit exemplaar. |
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