Museum number:

APM 19.848

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

pipe bowl with six faces

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with spherical bowl, without heel and ascending stem widening in cuff. Bowl around three portraits of men with grimaces, two sticking out their tongues, they share a cylindrical cap in which volutes and beads are carved, bowl underside a fourth portrait with bared teeth, stem from the stub a fifth portrait with a long beard, also the tongue sticking out, on the short side of the cuff a sixth mask with an open mouth into which the stem goes, the hood of this head is the same as the cap of the head in the stem. Details applied with red paint, the eyes of black glass. Bowl interior with sheet iron all around and a separate sheet iron bottom. Original white metal valve cover with lenticular top and perforations (the closing spring is missing).

Date:

Period 1820 - 1860


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.23 in (8.2 cm)
Width3.07 in (7.8 cm)
StemLength5.12 in (13 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Finish verf, rood
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany (?)
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Riom, veilinghuis Piasa, lot 67
Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1977-2009, coll. nr J1054
Marseille, collectie Eugène Jance, <1970-1977
Comments
Prachtig gesneden model met originele portretkoppen, een pijp om in de handen te draaien en steeds nieuwe portretten te ontdekken.
Literature
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.

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