Museum number:

APM 18.475

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing women

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with a strongly flattened oval shape, round underside and rising stem widening into a stub. Bowl left in relief two standing women in pleated robes, the left one with a cornucopia with fruits, the right one with a bowl of flame, on the ground on the left a tree stump, the right bowl side in relief also two standing women, the left one with a basket of flowers, the right one holds up three leaves, the front of the bowl at the top, a mask with grapes in its hair, the stem-side leaf motifs. Stem on both sides embossed palmet. Original mounting with gilded bronze valve cover with an S-shaped closure and worked edges, stem ring with printed relief decoration, original rising wooden stem with horned end piece with short flexible part and button mouthpiece, original green locking cord.

Date:

Period 1810 - 1840


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.06 in (10.3 cm)
Width2.28 in (5.8 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Length total22.83 in (58 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape flattened oval
Materialpottery, siderolith (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourred-brown
Other materialsbronze (metal), buffalo horn (animal material), wood
Finish verf, donkerbruin
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalThuringia
TownRuhla
Acquisition
Year 2006
Provenance Utrecht, nationale verzamelaarsjaarmarkt
Düsseldorf, antiekhandel, 2006
Literature
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: Hoge kwaliteit uit Ruhla. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Rondom siderolith, tussen fijnaardewerk en protoporselein. Amsterdam, 2018. afb 30. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Hoge kwaliteit uit Ruhla. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2008.

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