Museum number:

APM 13.225

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head man with glasses and headgear

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, heel marking and straight stem with button end. Bowl caricature representation of a donor with moustache and beard whose pointy goatee suggests the heel, squeezing glasses on the nose, high cylindrical hat with Turkish jewelry on the front and a worked lap under the hat around the head. Stem over the half length thickened and fluted and decorated with a collar followed by a round ribbon. Stem left embossed shape number "644". Stem intaglio "GAMBIER A PARIS M*M DEPOSE". Painted enamel in red, green, black and white. Stem end a string.

Date:

Period 1855 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.54 in (3.9 cm)
Width0.98 in (2.5 cm)
StemLength5.12 in (13 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish email, vier kleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalArdennes
TownGivet
MakerGambier
Trade number 644
Trade name fantaisie l'usurier
Mark "GAMBIER A PARIS M*M DEPOSE" (intaglio, steel)
Acquisition
Year 1992
Provenance Brussel, Le Grenier du Collectionneur, Catalogus 75, 1992, nr 224, prijs Bfr. 7.000 (Dfl. 385,-)
Brussel, collectie Jean-Léo Rostagni, 1958-1992
Brussel, particulier bezit, 1958
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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