Museum number:

APM 21.566

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust Abd-El-Kader

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with hollow-walled figural bowl, flat bottom and ascending stem with stub. Bowl bust of Abd-El-Kader with small moustache, turban, a slightly conical bust with embroidered clothes. Remarkably shallow bowl. Unpainted so-called blanc de Chine version.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1855


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.8 in (12.2 cm)
BowlHeight3.94 in (10 cm)
Width2.44 in (6.2 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain, blanc de Chine (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, transparant
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Acquisition
Year 2013
Provenance Parijs, Piasa, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 59
Gisy-les-Nobles, Daniel Mazaleyrat, <1980-2009
Comments
Vgl. APM 1.092 de oorspronkelijke modellering door Fiolet en het voorbeeld voor deze pijp.
Literature
Don Duco, Porseleinen figuurpijpen, niet altijd een originele inspiratie. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 8. Dit exemplaar.

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