Museum number:
| APM 20.597 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| standing general |
Description:
Porcelain tobacco pipe with stummel bowl, button heel and straight insert stem with six constrictions. Bowl front in Camaïeu or painted in monochrome shades of brown against a barely yellowish background, a standing general leaning on a stick with a cap in his hand, pointing with the left hand at a plinth on which the coat of arms of Switzerland and a second heraldic coat of arms and the years "1828- 1840" and below that "AUF WIEDERSEHEN", in the background a landscape with a river. Heel gold leaf. Stem end blue underglaze stripe. Original mounting with flat white metal lid, stamped eagle with spread wings on the inside and circular inscription "HENNIGER & CO NEUSILBER". |
Date:
| Year | 1840 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 4.45 in (11.3 cm) |
| Width | 1.5 in (3.8 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | Berliner high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | white metal (metal) |
| Finish | glazuur, grisaille |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Berlin (state) |
| Town | Berlin |
| Maker #1 | Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (?) |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | North Rhine Westphalia |
| Town | Cologne |
| Maker #2 | Henniger & Co ( maker of metal fittings) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, <1980-2011, nr AB385 |
| G.A. Brongers (Georg Alfred Brongers), Porseleinen pijpekoppen in het Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch museum te Amsterdam en Groningen. LochemMaandblad Antiek, V/3, 1970. p 151, afb 2. Dit exemplaar. |
| Bep van der Linden-Nijdam, Pijpen: rookinstrumenten van oudsher Tabaksdozen: fraaie bergplaatsen voor het dure produkt. Kunst- & Antiekrevue, VI/4, 1980. p 23. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Porseleinen pijpekop, Meissen. Niemeyer Ned. Tabacologisch Museum, Groningen. |
| Zwolle, Provinciaal Overijssels Museum, tentoonstelling "Van Gouwenaar tot bruyèrepijp, het tabaksgebruik in Nederland 1600-1900", 1 december 1979 - 20 januari 1980. |
| Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshavener Küstenmuseum, tentoonstelling "Schöne alte Porzellanpfeifen - 1750 bis 1900", 28 augustus 1982 - 12 september 1982. |
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