Museum number:

APM 16.585

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing negro slave with basket

Description:

Tabakspijp van klei met figurale ketel, hielmarkering en rechte steel. Ketel in hoogreliëf een mand gedragen door een staande neger in de steel uitgebeeld, het hoof vormt de hielmarkering. Schilderemail in roze, wit en zwart. Steel afgebroken met montage met messing busje met concentrische ringen en benen mondstuk.

Date:

Period 1855 - 1865


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.85 in (4.7 cm)
Width1.1 in (2.8 cm)
StemLength4.13 in (10.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Other materialsanimal bone (animal material), brass (metal)
Finish email, drie kleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalPas-de-Calais
TownSaint-Omer
MakerFirme L. Fiolet
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 8
Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002
Comments
Fairholt, 1859, p 189 beeldt deze pijp af met als bijschrift: A negro carrying a basket affords a very simple and pleasing motif for one design from Fiolet's establishment; and appears to have originated in a desire to give the smoker a share in spreading the universal popularity of the American novel by Mrs. Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin - whose principal character is thus impersonated at his labour.
Literature
Don Duco, Object van de maand. Amsterdam, 2001. oktober 2002, nr 17. Beknopte bespreking van dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Presentatie W.D. & H.O. Wills Hartcliffe Factory, Bristol, 1974-1990.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 4, v.a. 2002.

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