Museum number:

APM 15.080

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head oriental woman

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, without heel and slightly rising stem without flare at the end. Bowl head of an Oriental woman in Turkish costume with turban with round pin on the front, pebbly earrings. Stem near the bowl embossed pleated band. Painting in natural colours, the turban with purple dots, red pin, earrings yellow. Original mounting with silver valve cover on which a centrally cut ruby and cuff band with stem holder and locking ring.

Date:

Period 1770 - 1780


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.6 in (6.6 cm)
Width1.69 in (4.3 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueprinting mould
Colourwhite
Other materialssilver (metal), ruby (stone)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalThuringia
TownVeilsdorf
Maker Closter Veilsdorf
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1975-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1975
Comments
Vgl. APM 15.079 de mannelijke tegenhanger van dezelfde ontwerper.
Morgenroth, (Rauchzeichen), 2021, p 225, noot 412. Vermelding van deze pijpenkop.
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 35, afb 3. Dit exemplaar (boven).
Don Duco, The Turkish mode in porcelain pipes. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1999, /, 1999. p 148. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

If you have any comments, suggestions or additions, click here to send us an email