Museum number:

APM 14.499

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

hunting scene

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with a high cylindrical bowl, a flat underside and an up going stem, slightly flaring to the stub. Rustic connecting band in the form of a twig with bark between bowl and stem. Bowl over in the stem in relief hunting scene with the bust of a hunter with hat and gun between the bushes, a running hunting dog in the foreground. Bowl right a fleeing deer bitten by a dog in the hind leg. Stem left a dog. Press mould in two parts. Brownish black baked stoneware.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.21 in (10.7 cm)
Width1.69 in (4.3 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialstoneware (ceramic)
Techniquepressed
Colourbrown black
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1976-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1976
Comments
Een prachtig voorbeeld van een gesneden houten pijp nagemaakt in steengoed.
Literature
Don Duco, Rondom siderolith, tussen fijnaardewerk en protoporselein. Amsterdam, 2018. afb 65. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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