Museum number:
APM 14.286 |
Subcollection:
porcelain pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
sitting bear |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel marking, straight insert stem with four constrictions. Bowl-seated bear, the legs lifted, the head the lid of the pipe, the mouth and ears pierced for air supply. Brass lid mounting on the place of the collar with lock ring on the stem side. Painting in gray and brown. Stem underside painted mark in the shape of a fork or claw. Original mounting with buffalo horn of an ascending stem with an oval shaped screw bag with opening for the pipe stem at the top, two rings of inlay in red, at the top a profiled knot from where the slightly curved mouthpiece with five knots. |
Date:
Period | 1775 - 1790 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 3.43 in (8.7 cm) |
Width | 1.34 in (3.4 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
Pipe type | insert pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | slip cast |
Colour | white |
Other materials | brass (metal), buffalo horn (animal material) |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Saxony Anhalt |
Town | Volkstedt |
Maker | Manufaktur Volkstedt |
Mark | vork of klauw (geschilderd, steel) |
Year | 1995 |
Provenance | Parijs, antiekmarkt Porte de Vanves |
Parijs, particulier bezit, 1995 |
D.H. Duco (Don Duco), Van vorstengeschenk tot volksobject; De historie van de porseleinen tabakspijp. Vormen uit Vuur, Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vrienden van de Ceramiek, /165, 1998. p 36, afb 6. Dit exemplaar. |
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, tentoonstelling "Toppers, twee jaar aanwinsten Pijpenkabinet", voorjaar-zomer 1996. |
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001. |
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