Museum number:

APM 11.131

Subcollection:

prehistoric pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

two feet

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with convex bowl with funnel-shaped extension and inward bowl opening, bottom two pointed legs and straight stem flattened to the end. Polished, gray-black smothered surface.

Date:

Period 500 - 1400


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.15 in (8 cm)
Width2.01 in (5.1 cm)
StemLength7.68 in (19.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape spherical
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown black
Finish gepolijst
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentNorth America
Region internationalCentral America
CountryMexico
Region nationalMichoacán
EthnicityTarascan
Acquisition
Year 1989
Provenance Tilburg, America Antigua, Ted van Dijck
Toronto, particuliere collectie, <1985-1989
Comments
Vgl. Muriel N. Porter, Pipas Precortesianas, Mexico, 1948, plaat 12D. Michoacan.
Literature
B. Goes, De eerste tabak in Europa. MaarssenFlora in Leiden: de verborgen tuinen van de stad, SDU, /, 1990. foto VI. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 15, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 15, foto. Dit exemplaar.
D.H. Duco, Grafbeeld rokende figuur. UtrechtPeriodiek Vereniging Rembrandt, III/1, 1993. p 5, afb 8. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine etnografie, mei 1989 - september 1992.
Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum Prins Hendrik, tentoonstelling "Veertienhonderd negen twee, Columbus zeilde over zee", 1 oktober 1992 - 21 maart 1993.
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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