Museum number:
APM 15.606 |
Subcollection:
porcelain pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
sitting monkey |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, figural base and rising stem with stub. Bowl in multicolor sitting dark brown monkey with a white cloth tied around the head, in one leg a fish, in the other a bunch of vegetables, sitting on a jumping brown-white spotted cat. Head of monkey is the pipe lid, the air holes in the ears. Stem with cuff, left in black "GES. GES”. Stem end black, nickel cuff ring with locking eye. |
Date:
Period | 1885 - 1910 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 5.43 in (13.8 cm) |
Width | 1.93 in (4.9 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 3.54 in (9 cm) |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | slip cast |
Colour | white |
Other materials | nickel (metal) |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Acquisition
Year | 1999 |
Provenance | Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, 1989-1999 |
Londen, Antiquarius, Brian Tipping, 1989 |
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001. |
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