Museum number:

APM 15.113

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing persons, gold leaf praise work

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with hexagonal stummel bowl, knob heel and straight insert stem with four windings. Bowl on each panel painted multi-coloured standing person with on top and bottom gold leaf of stylized ornamental motifs. Heel gilded. Matching moist reservoir also hexagonal in shape with figure on both sides with top and bottom gold leaf of stylized motifs, the bottom a button, the inset for the bowl as a horn stuck to the reservoir on which hand painted a woman standing between gold leaf on the front. Original brass valve cover with a shoulder piece of a harness with helmet and helm token, the moist trap with brass rings along the openings.

Date:

Period 1825 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.17 in (10.6 cm)
Width1.57 in (4 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape stummel-shape
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, 1973-1996
Dieppe, particuliere collectie, <1960-1973
Literature
Bernard Mamy, Eppe Ramazzotti, Pipes et fumeurs de pipes; un art, des collections. Paris, 1981. p 119. Fourneau de pipe en porcelaine octogonale, avec pompe décorée, à décors aux chinois, fin du XVIIIe siècle, collection privée. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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