Museum number:

APM 13.045

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head man with mustache and bearskin

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with doetel-shaped figural bowl, without heel and straight stem with small button end. Bowl head of a man with big moustache and bears cap, under the cap some ties, which end in a knot in the stem angle, this knot is a holder for a Stanhope glass. In the lens a portrait photograph of the knee-piece of King William III with caption "WILLEM III KONING DER NEDERLANDEN". Matt yellow lacquer.

Date:

Year 1874


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.81 in (4.6 cm)
Width1.3 in (3.3 cm)
StemLength4.53 in (11.5 cm)
Weight40 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish lak, matgeel
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownGouda
MakerPieter Goedewaagen (?)
Trade number 213
Trade name gekwetste militair
Acquisition
Year 1992
Provenance Volendam, collectie Fred Tymstra, c. 1973-1992
Amsterdam, particulier bezit, <1970-c. 1973
Literature
F. Tymstra, Pijpen met kijkglaasjes. LeidenPijpelogische Kring Nederland, I/4, 1979. p 5, plaatje B en p 7, afb 1. Dit exemplaar het plaatje en de pijp.
D.H. Duco, Koninklijke Goedewaagen; Een veelzijdig ceramisch bedrijf, 1779-1982. Leiden, 1999. p 38, afb 37. Dit exemplaar.

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