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:
General | Length | 11.81 in (30 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 4.17 in (10.6 cm) |
Width | 1.5 in (3.8 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.34 in (3.4 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 | Bohemia |
Town | Pirkenhammer |
Maker | Fischer & Reichenbach |
Mark | F & R (intaglio, steel bz.) |
Year | 2008 |
Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 64 |
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008 |
Dankzij de vuurvergulde montage van klepdeksel, vochtzak en steelmontage een prachtige eenheid vooral gezien de productieplaats. |
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