Museum number:

APM 15.086

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sitting bird

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel marking and short straight insert stem with narrowing end with concentric rings. Bowl seated bird with pointy beak and short tail, sitting on a hand closed to a fist, depicted in the stem. Eyes of the bird pierced for the air supply. Painting with yellow head, red belly, back brown, coloured wings. Head of the bird a brass valve cover with retaining spring and locking ring. Matching buffalo horn stem with an oval-shaped moist bag that halfway screws up to which a s-shaped curved buffalo horn stem with six-sided weighted centre piece, a disc shaped button and a flattened stem end with small button.

Date:

Period 1780 - 1810


Dimensions:

GeneralLength12.6 in (32 cm)
BowlHeight2.4 in (6.1 cm)
Width1.06 in (2.7 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Length total9.84 in (25 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbrass (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalSaxony Anhalt
TownVolkstedt
Maker Manufaktur Volkstedt
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1989-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1989
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 36, afb 7. Dit exemplaar (rechts).
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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