Museum number:

APM 15.614

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

stag horn shape, animals

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of slip cast clay with shapeless bowl with flattened model, flat circular bottom, the bowl opening and the stem set almost next to each other on the top. Bowl both sides in relief horses, cows, a goat and a sheep in a landscape with a tree stump on the stem seam and a tree on the bowl seam. Makers mark under the stem insert. Die-cut brass valve cover and cuff ring with worked motif.

Date:

Period 1825 - 1845


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.86 in (9.8 cm)
Width1.3 in (3.3 cm)
StemLength2.56 in (6.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape natural shape
Materialpottery, siderolith (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourgreyish white
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Oher techniquespunched
Other coloursyellow-brown
Finish verf, bruin
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalSaxony
TownPirna
MakerPhilipp Eugenius (Eugen) Leyhn
Mark EL (stempel, steel)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1982-1999
Londen, antiekhandel, c. 1982
Comments
Vgl. APM 17.330 zelfde ontwerp in gele ceramiek.
Literature
Don Duco, Rondom siderolith, tussen fijnaardewerk en protoporselein. Amsterdam, 2018. afb 39. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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