Museum number:

APM 21.504

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head negress

Description:

Clay tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with stub. Bowl head of a negro woman with stylized facial features, frizzy hair and large ears, narrow collar to stem transition. Painting enamel in black and white on eyes, eyebrows and teeth.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1850


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.13 in (5.4 cm)
BowlHeight2.09 in (5.3 cm)
Width1.46 in (3.7 cm)
StemLength1.57 in (4 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish schilderemail, wit, zwart
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalArdennes
TownGivet
MakerBlanc-Garin & Guyot
Trade number 224
Trade name nègre
Mark BG (stempel, ketel oz.)
Acquisition
Year 2013
Provenance Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 461
Gisy-les-Nobles, Daniel Mazaleyrat, <1990-2009

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