Museum number:

APM 2.143

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

adelaar op tweekante steek

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, flat bottom and a short up going stem with a stub. Bowl on the front eagle with spread wings sitting on two-sided stitch. Bowl bottom oval mark stamp "DEPOSE No. 252 TERME DE LA LOI" (registered shape number 252 in terms of the law) and "BLANC-GARIN & GUYOT A GIVET".

Date:

Period 1830 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.83 in (7.2 cm)
Width1.3 in (3.3 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Weight77 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourblack-baked
Finish verf, goud
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalArdennes
TownGivet
MakerBlanc-Garin & Guyot
Trade number 252
Trade name aigle
Mark "BLANC-GARIN & GUYOT A GIVET" (stempel, ketel oz.)
"DEPOSE No. 252 TERME DE LA LOI" (stempel, ketel oz.)
Acquisition
Year 1987
Provenance Parijs, Denise Corbier, antiquaire
Parijs, antiekhandel, 1987
Literature
Don Duco, Nieuw in de kollektie: Negentiende eeuwse reclamepijp; De Napoleontische adelaar; Een Turk in Franse foudraal. LeidenVlugschrift, Vrienden van het Pijpenkabinet, V/1, 1987. p 5. Bespreking van dit exemplaar.
Saskia de Bodt, Jos Koldewey, Museumaanwinsten, het Leidse Pijpenkabinet. LochemMaandblad Antiek, XXII/2, 1988. p 96, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, The Intriguing world of the French clay pipe. WoubruggePipe, the worldwide pipe smoke's magazine, 10/2, 1999. p 17. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Napoleonpijpen: politiek statement of rage-item?. Amsterdam, 2013. afb 13. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine 19de eeuw, december 1987 - 31 december 1993.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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