Museum number:

APM 15.088

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sitting bird with human head

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel marking and short straight insert stem with narrowed end with eight concentric rings. Bowl sitting bird with head in the shape of the woman head with a hat with feather on the top, bowl base a fist folded man's hand. Multi-coloured painting, belly yellow, back brown, wings and tail green and hat bright yellow. Hole through lid with unobtrusive opening at the bottom. Brass cover ring with locking ring.

Date:

Period 1790 - 1820


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Width1.69 in (4.3 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 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, 1977-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1977
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 (midden).
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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