Museum number:
| APM 20.588 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| hunting dog and birds in landscape, leafy branches |
Description:
Porcelain tobacco pipe with stummel bowl, heel and straight insert stem with four constrictions. Bowl front in camaïeu or monochrome in gray-brown tones, a reclining dog guarding two shot birds, a tree behind which hangs a game bag. Bowl stem side two leaf branches in shiny and matte gold leaf, bowl lower half, heel and stem gold leaf. Bowl internally blue underglaze two sabers. |
Date:
| Period | 1830 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.35 in (8.5 cm) |
| Width | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Finish | glazuur, grijsbruin, bladgoud |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Saxony |
| Town | Meissen |
| Maker | Königlichen Sächsischen Porzellan-Manufaktur |
| Mark | gekruiste sabels (geschilderd onderglazuur blauw, ketel inw.) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2011 |
| Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1963-2011, nr 395 |
| Middelstum, collectie G.A. Brongers, 1948-1963 | |
| Borculo, collectie Luijmes, <1940-1948 |
Literature
| Don Duco, Stummels, twee eeuwen smaakmakend. Amsterdam, 2020. afb 22. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping. |
| Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshavener Küstenmuseum, tentoonstelling "Schöne alte Porzellanpfeifen - 1750 bis 1900", 28 augustus 1982 - 12 september 1982. |
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