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:
Bowl | Height | 3.23 in (8.2 cm) |
Width | 3.07 in (7.8 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 5.12 in (13 cm) |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | wood |
Technique | carved |
Colour | brown |
Finish | verf, rood |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany (?) |
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 |
Prachtig gesneden model met originele portretkoppen, een pijp om in de handen te draaien en steeds nieuwe portretten te ontdekken. |
Don Duco, Het Parijse museum van de Seita. AmsterdamNieuwsbrief Pijpenkabinet, 6/12, 2009. Dit exemplaar. |
Parijs, Musée de la Seita, permanente presentatie, 1979-2000. Dit exemplaar. |
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