Museum number:

APM 22.808

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

man's head, fish head

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with figural bowl, heel marking and rising stem with stub. Bowl head of a man with clownish face with wart on the hook nose, upside down a fish head, the opened mouth at the cuff that ends in a rim with pearls. Eyes with glass insert. Mounting with silver ring round the bowl opening and small silver ring round the stub, conical stem with two locking rings.

Date:

Period 1760 - 1785


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.2 in (5.6 cm)
BowlHeight2.17 in (5.5 cm)
Width1.46 in (3.7 cm)
StemLength2.56 in (6.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialwalnut (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourdark brown
Other materialssilver, iron (metal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBavaria
Acquisition
Year 2017
Comments
Thomasson spreekt bij dit werk van Ecole Nymphenburg naar vergelijkbare portretten in porselein uitgevoerd.
Literature
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), Tabakspijpen, kunstwerkjes in hout. ZandvoortMétier, 3/11, 2020. p 29. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Aanwinsten 2017", 2 februari - 6 mei 2018.

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