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:

BowlHeight3.43 in (8.7 cm)
Width1.34 in (3.4 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbrass (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalSaxony Anhalt
TownVolkstedt
Maker Manufaktur Volkstedt
Mark vork of klauw (geschilderd, steel)
Acquisition
Year 1995
Provenance Parijs, antiekmarkt Porte de Vanves
Parijs, particulier bezit, 1995
Literature
D.H. 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.
Exhibition
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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