Museum number:

APM 15.087

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 four concentric windings. Bowl sitting bird with pointed beak and short upright tail, eyes of the bird pierced for the air supply. Bowl base opened hand, the bird claws between the fingers. Multi-coloured painting of a yellow belly and green back with brown stripes, flight pins black, hand in flesh colour. Head of the bird a brass valve cover with retaining spring and locking ring. Two-part mould with clear mould seams.

Date:

Period 1790 - 1820


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.03 in (7.7 cm)
Width1.18 in (3 cm)
StemLength0.98 in (2.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1987-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1987
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 (links).
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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