Museum number:

APM 19.822

Subcollection:

prehistoric pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

cooling fins

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with a trunk-like bowl, without a heel and a straight stem with a diluted end with a rounded mouthpiece. Bowl and stem covered with fourteen zigzag ribs, the short mouthpiece smooth.

Date:

Period 600 - 1500


Dimensions:

GeneralLength7.87 in (20 cm)
BowlHeight3.27 in (8.3 cm)
Width2.28 in (5.8 cm)
StemLength5.71 in (14.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape trunk shape
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourgray
Finish engobe, wit
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentNorth America
Region internationalCentral America
CountryMexico
Region nationalMichoacán
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 208
Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1993-2009, coll. nr 1379
Zürich, Anne-Marie Reinhart, koop 16-12-1993
Literature
Anoniem, Collection Musée de la Seita, Objets du tabac et de ses usages. Paris, 2009. p 28,lot 208. (Afgebeeld). Pipe en terre gris rosé orné d'un motif côtelé ondé, embout émaillé blanc. Amérique du Sud, Colombie. Embout recollé. 150/180 euro.
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.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, 2010-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, v.a. 2013.

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