Museum number:

APM 21.990

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

"LE LAC DE CHEDE" (the lake of Chede)

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a slender, high stummel bowl, button heel and straight stem with five incisions. Bowl front handpainted in multicolour without frame face on a mountain lake with some goats in the front, the background mountain tops of the Mont Blanc, along the lower edge in black lettering "LE LAC DE CHEDE". Original silver valve cover with flat top, the air inlet sawn on the outside, stamped "13" mark. Bowl inside round collector label with "SAMMLUNG DR. H. BERG" and central with pin number "63".

Date:

Period 1828 - 1835


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.61 in (11.7 cm)
BowlHeight4.33 in (11 cm)
Width1.18 in (3 cm)
StemLength0.98 in (2.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBrandenburg
TownTettau
MakerPorzellanfabrik Tettau
Mark "J" (ingeslagen, dekselrand)
Acquisition
Year 2014
Comments
Geschilderd naar een voorstelling van de tekenaar Samuel Birmann (1793-1847), gelithografeerd door J.D. Harding, uitgegeven door de drukker Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) in Londen,
1828. Bij dit gezicht op het meer en de Mont Blanc zijn de twee bokjes op de voorgrond door de porseleinschilder toegevoegd.
Literature
Hartmut Berg, Herrn Biedermeiers Rauchvergnügen 23. Oktober 2010. Heidelberg, 2010. p 102, lot 241. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2017.

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