Museum number:
| APM 19.802 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| bust woman with wide-brimmed hat |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel marking and slightly curved stem widening to the stem end. Bowl the head of a woman with a wide-brimmed hat and a cylindrical canneled top with a circling garland, the hairs in a long tail on the back, over the stem with pleats of clothing and a bow under the breast. Painting in greenish, purplish and orange, the face in natural colors. Original silver mounting with ring along the bowl opening and stem holder with round going engraved band and stem holder, locking ring on the stem plate. In the stem a cork with a decorative ball. |
Date:
| Period | 1780 - 1790 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 4.53 in (11.5 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 2.52 in (6.4 cm) |
| Width | 2.05 in (5.2 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.15 in (8 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | silver (metal) |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren, gemonteerd |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Baden-Wurttemberg |
| Town | Ludwigsburg |
Acquisition
| Year | 2009 |
| Provenance | Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 77 |
| Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1947-2009, coll nr 89 | |
| Parijs, M. Hilbert, koop 06-05-1947 |
Comments
| Het model van deze pijp vertoont nauwe relatie met de zakvormige meerschuimpijp, vooral in de vorm van de steel. Morgenroth, (Rauchzeichen), 2021, p 155, noot 435. Over de herkomst van deze pijp. |
Literature
| Robert Jauze, Guide du tabac. , 1984. p. 42. Dit exemplaar (kleurenfoto). |
| Anoniem, Musée du SEITA. Paris, 1979. p 37, nr J26. Tête de pipe en porcelaine figurant un buste de femme coiffée d'un haut chapeau. Monture argent. Manufacture de Louisbourg. Fin du XVIIIe siècle. Seita 89.Idem, p 43. Afgebeeld (in kleur). |
| Anoniem, Collection Musée de la Seita, Objets du tabac et de ses usages. Paris, 2009. p 14, lot 77. Afgebeeld. Tête de pipe en porcelaine polychrome à sujet de jeune femme portant un grand chapeau formant fourneau, monture argent. Saxe, XIXe siècle. Petits accidents. 400/500 euro. |
| V. Emanuel, Aldo Pellisone, Die Pfeife: Kulturgeschichte und Typologie für Pfeifenraucher und Pfeifensammler. Munich, 1988. |
| Aldo Pellisone, Valentina Emanuel, Pipe, I tabacchi, i fiammiferi le tabacchiere. Milan, 1989. p 67. Dit exemplaar (kleur). Bijschrift: Fornello di pipa in porcellana, XVIII secolo - Parigi, Musée Seita. |
| Georges Herment, Traité de la pipe. Paris, 1979. p 49. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Pipe française en porcelaine de la fin du XVIIIe à l'effigie de Marie-Antoinette. |
| Julie Valck, La pipe. Paris, 1988. p 34. Dit exemplaar (in kleur). Bijschrift: Fourneau de pipe en porcelaine polychrome. Buste de femme coiffée d'un haut chapeau; monture en argent. Manufacture de Luisbourg, fin XVIIIe siècle. |
| Don Duco, Het Parijse museum van de Seita. AmsterdamNieuwsbrief Pijpenkabinet, 6/12, 2009. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Parijs, Musée de la Seita, permanente presentatie, 1979-2000. Dit exemplaar, cat. nr J26. |
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