Museum number:

APM 15.082

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, widening to a stub. Bowl the head of an Oriental woman in Turkish costume with turban with double pearl necklace on the face interspersed with rosettes. Stem marking pearls with rosettes, a bow as a heel marking on the underside of the stem. Stem with pleated relief of volutes and scrolls. Painting in natural colours, the turban soft green with green and gray worked, with a slip with purple stripes on the left. Bowl underside bow with blue and red stripes, stem brown. Original mounting with half round silver lid with open sawn band and engraved owner initials, silver stub ring with locking ring.

Date:

Period 1775 - 1785


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.72 in (6.9 cm)
Width1.5 in (3.8 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueprinting mould
Colourwhite
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalSaxony
TownMeissen
MakerKöniglichen Sächsischen Porzellan-Manufaktur
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1989-1996
Sceaux, veiling, 1989
Comments
Gezien de fijnheid van het modelé, materiaal en beschildering zou dit een later product uit Meissen kunnen zijn (c. 1780), vandaar de vlakke ornamentatie op de steel.
Literature
D.H. Duco (Don 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 4. Dit exemplaar (links).
Don Duco, The Turkish mode in porcelain pipes. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1999, /, 1999. p 152. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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