Museum number:
| APM 11.130 |
Subcollection:
| prehistoric pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| colibri, platvorm type |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with funnel shape bowl on triangular flared platform and rudiment of legs on both sides, straight stem and smooth mouthpiece. Stem in high relief colibri with the beak at the rim of the bowl. Traces of red and black paint, the colobri with white slip. |
Date:
| Period | 400 - 600 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 1.65 in (4.2 cm) |
| Width | 1.57 in (4 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 10.24 in (26 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stem pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | red |
| Finish | engobe, verf, zwart |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | North America |
| Region international | Central America |
| Country | Mexico |
| Ethnicity | Teotihuacan |
Acquisition
| Year | 1989 |
| Provenance | Tilburg, America Antigua, Ted van Dijck |
| Toronto, particuliere collectie, <1980-1989 |
Literature
| Don Duco, Nieuw in de kollektie: Colibri. LeidenVlugschrift, Vrienden van het Pijpenkabinet, /2-3, 1989. p 13. Dit exemplaar. |
| Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 18, foto. Dit exemplaar. |
| Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 18, foto. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Een pijp naar de natuur, vormgevingsaspecten bij precolumbiaanse tabakspijpen. Amsterdam, 1995. afb 3. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Aspects of designs of pre-Columbian tobacco pipes. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1996, /, 1996. p 66. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine etnografie, juni 1989 - september 1992. |
| Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum, tentoonstelling "500 jaar tabakscultuur", 9 oktober 1992 - 9 oktober 1993. |
| Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, 2001-2013. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, v.a. 2013. |
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