Museum number:
APM 1.681 |
Subcollection:
ceramic pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
seated woman |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with figural bowl, without heel and short ascending stem with discreet stub. Hand modeled pipe representing a sitting woman with spreaded knees, hands on the lower legs, the bowl for the tobacco in front of her chest, the long hair falls over the hands and lower legs and turns into an imaginary drapery at the bottom. Stem end underside inscribed "H. POUBLAN 1906". Yellow-tinted clay mixed with lime. |
Date:
Year | 1906 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 2.8 in (7.1 cm) |
Width | 2.01 in (5.1 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | pottery (ceramic) |
Technique | hand-formed |
Colour | creamy white |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | France |
Region national | Pyrénées Atlantiques |
Town | Pau |
Maker | Henri Antoine Poublan |
Mark | "H. POUBLAN 1906" (ingekrast, steel oz.) |
Acquisition
Year | 1993 |
Provenance | Parijs, Denise Corbier, antiquaire |
Vincennes, particulier bezit, 1993 |
Literature
Don Duco, De nadagen van de figuurpijp, recente portretpijpen tussen klei en ceramiek. Amsterdam, 2011. afb 9. Dit exemplaar. |
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