Museum number:

APM 15.135

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust emir

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem, widening to an inconspicuous stub. Bowl bust of a sultan with mustache and goatee, turban on the head, bust with embroidered shirt with two daggers between the cummerbund, the bust fringed by a fur collar. Bust underside incised leaf motif. Stem fluted. Brown clay painted with white, blue, brown and black.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.29 in (10.9 cm)
Width2.24 in (5.7 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialstoneware (ceramic)
Techniquepressed, modeled
Colourbrown
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1982-1996
Brussel, Josse Vandersteen, antiquair, 1982
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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