Museum number:

APM 20.250

Subcollection:

excavated pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

portrait stadholder-king Willem III

Description:

Tobacco pipe (or display window pipe) made of clay with a large funnel-shaped bowl, heel and straight stem. Pipe bowl the head of stadtholder-king William III with a wig with button-shaped curls, small mustache, a bow with jabot on the transition to the stem. Bowl shaped to the right as an extension of the wig (the left side broken off) with two rows of pressed circles on the stem side, the reverse side undecorated. Stem topside in relief with five buttons of a jacket and a band around it. Bowl internal traces of a hand moulded crown.

Date:

Period 1690 - 1695


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.74 in (9.5 cm)
Width2.09 in (5.3 cm)
StemLength2.36 in (6 cm)
Weight230 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniqueprinting mould
Colourwhite
Finish handmatig
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownGouda
MakerHendrick Jansz. Sprot
Mark HIS (reliëf, hiel oz.)
Acquisition
Year 2010
Provenance Weesp, Dolf Kellens
Excavation site Diemen, Diemerdijk, stortlaag (steel in 2008 van dezelfde vindplaats), 2004
Literature
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: De stadhouder als feestpijp. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, De stadhouder als feestpijp. Amsterdam, 2011. afb 1a-j. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, aaaDe Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor het determineren. Amsterdam, 2024. hfst 6, p , afb 309. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Lang leve Oranje!, 200 jaar Koninkrijk, Oranje en de pijpmakerij", 3 april - 15 augustus 2013.

If you have any comments, suggestions or additions, click here to send us an email