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:

BowlHeight5.43 in (13.8 cm)
Width1.93 in (4.9 cm)
StemLength3.54 in (9 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsnickel (metal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
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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