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:

GeneralLength12.01 in (30.5 cm)
BowlHeight4.13 in (10.5 cm)
Width1.34 in (3.4 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical oval
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn (animal material), silver (metal), cherrywood (wood)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBerlin (state)
TownBerlin
MakerKönigliche Porzellan Manufaktur
Mark "13" (ingeslagen dekselring)
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 62
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
De zak is kenmerkend voor Berlijn vanaf 1820.
Literature
Don Duco, Weichselhouten pijpenroeren. Amsterdam, 2016. afb 5. Dit exemplaar.

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