Museum number:

APM 7.748

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

braided stem

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of cream ware with oval shape Gouda bowl, heel and long curled stem wound to large dish with on the front round loops ending in the pipe bowl at the bottom of the dish, the stem with a mouthpiece at the top with a slight pear shape. White cream ware shard, green tinted lead glaze. Bowl painted in blue "P: C: DELFT".

Date:

Period 1820 - 1840


Dimensions:

GeneralDiameter9.29 in (23.6 cm)
StemLength305.12 in (775 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape oval shape
Materialpottery, creamware (ceramic)
Techniquepressed
Colourwhite
Finish loodglazuur, groengetint
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownDelft
MakerHendrikus Arnoldus Piccardt
Mark "P:C:DELFT" (schildering, ketel)
Acquisition
Year 1981
Provenance Abbéville, antiekwinkel rue Saint-Vulfran
Abbéville, particulier bezit, <1966-1980
Literature
Don Duco, Engelse invloeden bij een ongewoon Delfts produkt van ca. 1830. LochemMaandblad Antiek, XXV/1, 1990. p 15. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 28. foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 28. foto. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 3, v.a. 2001.

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