Museum number:

APM 15.094

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

cameo of helmeted head

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with cylindrical hollow-walled bowl, without heel and up going stem with narrow stub. Bowl front embossed cameo of a woman to the right helmeted and between two oak branches intersecting at the bowl base. Stem embossed a winged monster with folded legs at the bottom, scales on the body and opened mouth at the stub. Flat connection between bowl and stem. Grayscale stoneware, the cameo blue. Traces of painting on the foliage. Brass flap cover with embossed medallion on which a standing Fortuna at a burning altar with inscription "DER FREUNDSCHAFT", flowers on both sides. Brass stem band. Bowl interior replaced with a clay pipe bowl. Mould in two parts, the cameo afterwards glued over the moulding seam.

Date:

Period

1810 - 1850

Dimensions:

Bowl	Height	3.31 in (8.4 cm)
	Width	1.57 in (4 cm)
Stem	Length	1.97 in (5 cm)