Museum number:

APM 14.637

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

skull, foliage

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a hollow-walled figural bowl, a knob heel and a straight push in stem with constrictions around the end. Bowl skull with some missing teeth, painted with brown and black accents at eye sockets, nose and temples. Matching moist bag in the same colors with embossed a rocaille-like motif on both sides. Original straight cherry wood stem attached to a buffalo horn end piece with bent mouthpiece. Locking string with tassels.

Date:

Period 1870 - 1910


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Width2.76 in (7 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Length total11.02 in (28 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn (animal material), cherrywood (wood)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalThuringia
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, Serpette, marché aux puces
Parijs, antiekhandel, 1996
Comments
Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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