Museum number:

APM 21.560

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

painting with continuous pattern

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with wide chiboucq bowl with outstanding bowl rim, round bowl base and ascending stem with disc-shaped stub. Bowl octagonal, the bowl rim scalloped. Bowl and stem hand-painted with a continuous pattern of ornamental linework in which stylized fantasy leaves are heightened with gold leaf. Bowl rim and stub gold leaf.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1855


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.17 in (5.5 cm)
BowlHeight2.17 in (5.5 cm)
Width2.09 in (5.3 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape chibuk
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Acquisition
Year 2013
Provenance Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 27
Gisy-les-Nobles, Daniel Mazaleyrat, <1985-2009
Literature
Don Duco, Object van de maand. Amsterdam, 2001. mei 2013, nr 144. Beknopte bespreking van dit exemplaar.

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