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:
General | Length | 12.6 in (32 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 2.4 in (6.1 cm) |
Width | 1.06 in (2.7 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
Length total | 9.84 in (25 cm) |
Pipe type | insert pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | slip cast |
Colour | white |
Other materials | brass (metal), buffalo horn (animal material) |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Saxony Anhalt |
Town | Volkstedt |
Maker | Manufaktur Volkstedt |
Year | 1996 |
Provenance | Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1989-1996 |
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1989 |
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 36, afb 7. Dit exemplaar (rechts). |
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001. |
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