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:

BowlHeight2.8 in (7.1 cm)
Width2.01 in (5.1 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourcreamy white
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalPyrénées Atlantiques
TownPau
MakerHenri 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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