Museum number:

APM 7.071

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

caricatural head man

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, heel marking and straight stem with button end. Bowl caricature head of a man with curled mustache, the tongue out of the open mouth, pointy goatee and the hair in a high pointed curl on the head, stem-set three lofty leaves. Stem intaglio "DUMERIL LEURS ST.OMER DEPOSE". Enamel painting in green, pink, black and white on hair band, tongue, eyebrows and eyes. Stem end string.

Date:

Period 1850 - 1875


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.36 in (6 cm)
BowlHeight1.54 in (3.9 cm)
Width1.54 in (3.9 cm)
StemLength5.31 in (13.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish email, vier kleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalPas-de-Calais
TownSaint-Omer
MakerFirme E. Duméril, H. Leurs et Cie
Trade number 243
Mark "DUMERIL LEURS ST.OMER DEPOSE" (intaglio, steel)
Acquisition
Year 2016

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