Museum number:
APM 18.686 |
Subcollection:
porcelain pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
family crest |
Description:
Porcelain tobacco pipe with stummel bowl, button heel and straight insert stem with four constrictions. Bowl front hand-painted in polychrome quartered family coat of arms with a bird with a worm in its beak on a hill in the first and last quarters, second and third quarters a checkered twill, crowned by two helmets, the left with a seated fox, the right with a flight. Bowl internally blue underglaze stripe. Heel pressed format number "10". |
Date:
Period | 1835 - 1855 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 4.53 in (11.5 cm) |
Width | 1.61 in (4.1 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 1.57 in (4 cm) |
Weight | 98.5 gram |
Characteristics
Pipe type | insert pipe |
Pipe shape | high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
Colour | white |
Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Saxony Anhalt |
Town | Althaldensleben |
Maker | Firma Nathusius (?) |
Mark | gestileerde scepter (geschilderd, ketel, inw.) |
Acquisition
Year | 2007 |
Provenance | 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan |
Duitsland, particulier bezit, 2007 |
Comments
Eerste en vierde kwartier een vogel (kraai ?) op een heuvel, tweede en derde een geschaakte keper, als helmteken een marter. Otto Schutte heeft geprobeerd het wapen thuis te brengen, is niet gelukt. |
Literature
Don Duco, Stummels, twee eeuwen smaakmakend. Amsterdam, 2020. afb 78. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2017. |
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