Museum number:

APM 15.609

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

concentric rings, lead mounting

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of pottery with pot-shaped bowl placed on a stem end that bends back half way and continues at the base of the bowl into a lead mounting with a twisted band back to the bowl. Between the stems two ceramic connecting straps. Bowl halfway band with cross hatching. Stem eight times a band with concentric rings. Polished surface. Original inserted short wooden stem with twisted rings and knot, smooth mouthpiece.

Date:

Period 1870 - 1920


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.44 in (6.2 cm)
Width1.14 in (2.9 cm)
StemLength3.94 in (10 cm)
Length total6.5 in (16.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape pot shape
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourblack
Other materialswood
Finish gepolijst
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentAfrica
Region internationalCentral-Africa
CountryGabon
EthnicityLumbo
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, 1988-1999
Brussel, antiekhandel, 1988
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, serre, vitrine Afrika, v.a. 2002.

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