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:

BowlHeight4.09 in (10.4 cm)
Width1.42 in (3.6 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 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 nationalBerlin (state)
TownBerlin
MakerKönigliche Porzellan Manufaktur (?)
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Utrecht, internationale verzamelaarsjaarmarkt
Utrecht, Haffmans antiek, 1997
Bilthoven, particulier bezit, <1980-1997
Literature
D.H. Duco (Don 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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