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:
Bowl | Height | 2.83 in (7.2 cm) |
Width | 1.57 in (4 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.57 in (4 cm) |
Weight | 76 gram |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | pipe clay (ceramic) |
Technique | press moulded |
Colour | white |
Finish | email, zwart, wit |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | France |
Region national | Ardennes |
Town | Givet |
Maker | Gambier |
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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