Museum number:

APM 10.103

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing man with money pouch

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem with necking around the stem end. Bowl standing man with hat with rim, dressed in a long coat, open at the front so that a vest is visible, the right hand lifted, in the left a bag of coins. Bowl rear small barrel. Figure is on an oval pedestal with grunts on the underside and a flat rat's tail transforming into the stem. Painted in beige, green, gray, brown, black and flesh colour.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.37 in (11.1 cm)
Width1.61 in (4.1 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBohemia
Acquisition
Year 1994
Provenance Sint-Niklaas, pijpenbeurs
Charleville, antiekhandel, 1994
Comments
Uitbeelding van een Goulash-baron, een Zweedse uitdrukking voor een zakenman met capsones.
Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Toppers, twee jaar aanwinsten Pijpenkabinet", voorjaar-zomer 1996.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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