Museum number:
| APM 15.142 |
Subcollection:
| ceramic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| ribbed bowl, flat braided stem |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with curved shape bowl, spur shaped heel and braided stem with flat rectangular shape with diluted stem end. Bowl embossed flat grunts up to the bowl opening. Painting on bowl in orange-yellow and blue lines of wisp, the bowl opening blue and stem stacked dashes in blue and orange-yellow alternated by green dots, stem end blue. Bowl moulded in print mould, the stem from a clay press. |
Date:
| Period | 1800 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 1.77 in (4.5 cm) |
| Width | 1.14 in (2.9 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 12.2 in (31 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stem pipe |
| Pipe shape | trunk shape |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | yellowish white |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | England |
| Region national | Staffordshire |
| Town | Stafford |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1983-1996 |
| London, Brian Tipping, 1983 |
Literature
| Peter J. Davey (Peter J. Davey), The 'English' pipes in the Rothschild collection: typology, chronology and provenance. LiverpoolJournal of the Académie Internationale de la PIpe, /9, 2016. p 62, fig 16, afb 1 en 1a. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001. |
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