Museum number:
| APM 3.323 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| boy spies on a woman |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with stummel bowl, knob heel and short straight insertion stem with concentric windings. Bowl front hand painted in rectangular with gold leaf frame landscape with on the right a sitting woman feeding a baby, on the left of a tree a boy watching, right above four angels. Heel intaglio size number "8". Original silver valve cover with angel head between wings and retaining spring, edge front silver mark sword. |
Date:
| Period | 1820 - 1840 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 4.09 in (10.4 cm) |
| Width | 1.42 in (3.6 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | silver (metal) |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Berlin (state) |
| Town | Berlin |
| Maker | Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1997 |
| Provenance | Utrecht, internationale verzamelaarsjaarmarkt |
| Utrecht, Haffmans antiek, 1997 | |
| Bilthoven, particulier bezit, <1980-1997 |
Literature
| D.H. Duco, Van vorstengeschenk tot volksobject; De historie van de porseleinen tabakspijp. Vormen uit Vuur, Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vrienden van de Ceramiek, /165, 1998. p 40, afb 13. Dit exemplaar (links). |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, 1999-2013. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2013. |
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