Museum number:

APM 15.100

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head man with helmet with chin strap

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with hollow-walled figural bowl, without heel and rising stem without stub. Bowl the head of a hussar with thin mustache and convex helmet with small flap at the front and braided chin strap, helmet front plume with feathers. Porcelain valve cover on which sitting animal. Stem end embossed leaf motif with incised edges. Painting in natural colours, the matt cobalt blue helmet, the stem partly sky blue with green leaves. Original fitting of brass lid ring and cuff strap with locking eye.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.54 in (9 cm)
Width1.85 in (4.7 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed 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, 1992-1996
Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, 1992
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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