Museum number:

APM 15.144

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

four faces, braided stem

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with curved bowl shape, spur and braided stem with smooth stem end. Bowl around embossed four faces, each sharing an eye under a simple vertical ribbed hat. Stem braided with four extruding curls. Painting with tamponated yellow and cobalt blue spots, bowl opening and stem end blue, covered with a blue-tinted lead glaze.

Date:

Period 1800 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.57 in (4 cm)
Width1.14 in (2.9 cm)
StemLength11.61 in (29.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape trunk shape
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colouryellowish white
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryEngland
Region nationalStaffordshire
TownStafford
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1982-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1982
Literature
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 64, fig 18, afb 3 en 3a. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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