Museum number:

APM 16.073

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

painted gemstones

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with convex fluted bowl, heel marking and rising stem with stub. Bowl on eight sides with swiveled surfaces on which eight standing ovals, stem four elongated leaves that end in a point at the base of the bowl and of which the lower one forms the heel marking. Stem at stub weighted band with six standing ovals. Paintings in bright colors of alternating orange and green on the standing ovals that give the impression of cornaline and malachite, furthermore flowers and leaves in blue, pink, purple and gold. Valve cover with semicircular octagon with a crescent as its crown. Bowl inside in underglaze blue crossed swords and three stripes. Original assembly with gold-plated brass lid edge and cuff ring with locking eye.

Date:

Period 1825 - 1835


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.11 in (7.9 cm)
Width1.61 in (4.1 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape spherical
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Oher techniquesgilt
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
TownSchlaggenwald
MakerSchlaggenwald
Mark staande streepjes III (geschilderd, onderglazuur blauw, ketel inw.))
Acquisition
Year 2000
Provenance Heidelberg, veilinghuis Metz, lot 362
Bazel, collectie Haegeli, <1990-2000
Literature
Walter Morgenroth, Rund um den Tabak; Sammlung Haegeli, Schweiz 1898-1998. Heidelberg, 2000. p 224, lot 362. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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