Museum number:

APM 1.586

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

man with knife and woman, volcano

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with stummel bowl, knob heel and straight insertion stem with six windings. Bowl front hand-painted in oval-shaped contour three quarter of a man with dagger in the raised right arm next to a woman seen from the back, on the right in the background a smoking vulcan. Heel intaglio size number "8" and stem end top intaglio "F & R". Original fire-gilt lid with centrally embossed chariot with Aurora drawn by a four-in-hand, around the signs of the zodiac, lid internal label with handwritten collection number "232". Original mounting with buffalo horn moist reservoir with ascending curl at the base and two gilded bronze rings with alternating lion heads and stylized leaves, upright cherry wood stem with gilt brass nails, on the top a fire-gilt, multi-faceted button with pointed edge ending in a brown-black buffalo horn disc with bent mouthpiece with button.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1850


Dimensions:

GeneralLength11.81 in (30 cm)
BowlHeight4.17 in (10.6 cm)
Width1.5 in (3.8 cm)
StemLength1.34 in (3.4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialscherrywood (wood), buffalo horn (animal material), metal
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBohemia
TownPirkenhammer
Maker Fischer & Reichenbach
Mark F & R (intaglio, steel bz.)
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 64
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
Dankzij de vuurvergulde montage van klepdeksel, vochtzak en steelmontage een prachtige eenheid vooral gezien de productieplaats.

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