Museum number:

APM 15.109b

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 missing. Painted in natural colours with a green 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)
Weight78 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 2005
Provenance Brussel, antiekwinkel Groot Zavel
Brussel, antiekhandel, c. 2000
Comments
Dekseltje met een kurkje waarin een spelt vastgezet.

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