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:
Bowl | Height | 3.74 in (9.5 cm) |
Width | 2.09 in (5.3 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 2.36 in (6 cm) |
Weight | 230 gram |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stem pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | pipe clay (ceramic) |
Technique | printing mould |
Colour | white |
Finish | handmatig |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | The Netherlands |
Region national | South Holland |
Town | Gouda |
Maker | Hendrick 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. |
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