Museum number:

APM 4.562

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

hilly landscape with house and mill

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with stummel bowl, heel and short straight insertion stem with three windings round the stem end. Bowl front in oval double gold band with stars in monochrome or encre the chine a rolling landscape with under a tree on the right a farm and a mill in the offing, left in the foreground persons at a water, clouds colored with yellow fond. Heel intaglio size number "8". Stem end under glaze blue stripe. Mounting in silver with valve cover with pearl fillet around and sawn edge in which ovals, retaining spring as closure. Original ball-shaped silver moist bag with a lock chain to the bowl.

Date:

Period 1810 - 1820


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.02 in (10.2 cm)
Width1.38 in (3.5 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip 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
Mark blauwe streep (geschilderd, steel)
Acquisition
Year 1993
Provenance Leeuwarden, Hans van de Kamp, antiquair, 1987-1993
Leeuwarden, particulier bezit, <1960-1987
Comments
Zogenaamd grauer Porzellan ofwel Gesundheitsporzellan.
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 37, afb 8. Dit exemplaar (rechts).
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: Berlijnse stummel met Hollands landschap. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Berlijnse stummel met Hollands landschap. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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