Museum number:

APM 15.242

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust emir with mustache and goatee

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem with stub. Bowl bust of an emir with moustache and goatee, turban on the head and bust with chest strap in between, a pendant with a medallion with geometric motif around the neck and a cloak trimmed with fur. Bowl underside serrated leaf. Yellow clay with marble coloured engobe in light and dark brown beige, covered with transparent glaze, eyes, eyebrows, moustache and goatee accentuated with black.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1885


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.21 in (10.7 cm)
Width1.81 in (4.6 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourbeige
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance (?)
Acquisition
Year 1998
Provenance Amsterdam, Ronald Klein
Amsterdam, particulier bezit, 1998, prijs Dfl. 45,-
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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