Museum number:

APM 19.673

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sawasa colors, flower branch with bird

Description:

Tobacco pipe of red copper and gold, so-called kiseru with a small funnel-shaped bowl, without a heel, standing on a straight, slightly widening stem, thin bamboo stem and copper mouthpiece that slowly tapers towards the end without a knot. Metal in sawasa colors and technique, the bowl gold, the stub  ends gold, the mouthpiece slanted gold. Stem on the right near the bowl engraved and filled in with gold, bird on a flower branch, stem near the mouthpiece flower branch. Stem ends twice hammered hallmark. Dark bamboo stem with knot and burnt clouds.

Date:

Period 1800 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight0.55 in (1.4 cm)
Width0.39 in (1 cm)
StemLength1.77 in (4.5 cm)
Length total7.48 in (19 cm)
Weight24 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape kiseru
Materialcopper (metal)
Techniqueforged
Colourblack
Other materialsbamboo (wood), gold (metal)
Oher techniquesblackened
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalEast Asia
CountryJapan
Mark keurmerken (2x) (intaglio, steeleinden)
karakters (gegraveerd, steeleind)
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Zutphen, Jos Ott, antiquair
Brussel, particulier bezit, <1972-2009
Parijs, antiquair, 1970-1972
Literature
Don Duco, Japanse rookattributen uit de Meijiperiode, een inleiding. Amsterdam, 2021. afb 5. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, werkkamer, kiseruvitrine 1, 2011 e.v.

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