Museum number:

APM 14.479

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

Zeus and Ganymede

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with cylindrical figural bowl, without heel and rising stem with stub. Bowl front Zeus depicted with moustache and beard and shoulder-length hair, dressed in a pleated robe, under his right arm the boy Ganymede with cylindrical hat, in his left hand a staff. Bowl left eagle with the head to the right. Stem a caryatid with braided fish tail that forms the base of the pipe, the arms folded together on the belly and wings that reach far beyond the bowl. Stub embossed hollow grunts. Painted enamel eyes.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1855


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.83 in (7.2 cm)
Width1.57 in (4 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Weight76 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish email, zwart, wit
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalArdennes
TownGivet
MakerGambier
Mark JG (stempel, steel oz.)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1979-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1979
Comments
Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998.
Literature
Bernard Mamy, Eppe Ramazzotti, Pfeifen und Pfeifenraucher; Pfeifendunst und Pfeifenkunst. Geneva, 1982. p 40. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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