Museum number:

APM 14.047

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

banded shading

Description:

Tabakspijp van aardewerk met conische ketel, vlakke onderzijde met lekgat en oplopende steel zonder manchet. Ketel zeven concentrische banen afwisselend glad en met staande arceringen. Ketelbasis verzwaard met drie banen schuine streepjes. Steel geruwd en eind met concentrische banen met staande streepjes.

Date:

Period 1880 - 1930


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.61 in (11.7 cm)
Width1.61 in (4.1 cm)
StemLength3.54 in (9 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape conic
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalWest Africa
CountryCameroon
Region nationalGrasslands
Acquisition
Year 1994
Provenance Hoboken, Felix Louwers, <1985-1994
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Kameroen, v.a. 2000.

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