Museum number:

APM 15.134

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

woman with barrel

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel and straight insert stem with four windings. Bowl in high-relief woman with long skirt, apron, the arms folded, a hat with a point on the head, on her back a clapboard with three hoops forming the pipe bowl. Stem near bowl weighted and with flat grunts. Hand painted in red, blue, yellow, brown, green. Heel gilded. Brass valve cover with closure with culot and two oak leaves.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.66 in (9.3 cm)
Width1.85 in (4.7 cm)
StemLength1.77 in (4.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert 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
Region nationalBohemia (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1979-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1979
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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