Museum number:

APM 15.109a

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

seated guitar player

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, flat bottom and rising stem with stub. Bowl a sitting man on a tree trunk with guitar, the head is the lid of the pipe. Lid ring of brass. Painted in natural colours with a brown jacket, a yellow and brown tree trunk.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.62 in (9.2 cm)
Width1.65 in (4.2 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, 1980-1996
Londen, Antiquarius, Brian Tipping, 1980
Literature
Bernard Mamy, Eppe Ramazzotti, Pipes et fumeurs de pipes; un art, des collections. Paris, 1981. p 87, afb 1. Tête de pipe en porcelaine, le guitariste; la tête du musicien forme couvercle, Allemagne, début du XIXe siècle, collection privée. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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