Museum number:

APM 19.807

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust as cameo

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with hollow-walled constricted cylindrical bowl, lens-shaped underside and rising stem widening to cuff. Bowl front in relief in white stoneware turned to the left bust of a man with high collar and short hair in strands. Along the filt and along the cuff an edge of white-tinted stoneware. Bowl inside three air holes.

Date:

Period 1810 - 1840


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.5 in (8.9 cm)
Width1.93 in (4.9 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Weight120 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape constricted
Materialstoneware (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite, black
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryEngland
Region nationalStaffordshire
TownBarlaston (?)
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 122
Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1977-2009, coll nr J1101
Marseille, collectie Eugène Jance, <1965-1977
Comments
De toeschrijving door het Seita aan Disraeli is onjuist.
Literature
Anatole Jakovsky, L'Épopée du tabac. Paris, 1971. p 8. Vergelijkbaar exemplaar uit dezelfde collectie, echter met een band met eikenloof iets boven de ketelbasis.
Marie-Claire Adès, Catalogue Musée-Galerie de la SEITA; histoire du tabac et de ses usages. Paris, 1992. p 108, nr 154. Fourneau de pipe en porcelaine de Wedgwood noire et blanche. De forme cylindrique concave, portant à la face le portrait de Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). premier ministre de la reine Victoria de 1874 à 1880. Angleterre, fin XIXe siècle. (H.F. 8,5 cm). Musée de la Seita J1101.
Exhibition
Luik, Musée de la Vie Wallonne, Tabac miroir du temps, 10 mei - 15 september 1985, catalogus 327. Dit exemplaar.

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