Museum number:

APM 7.901

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

"LEVEN NEERLANDS VORSTEN" (long live the Dutch kings and queens), "1813-1863"

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with bowl between doetel and slender mustard spoon, curled heel and s-shaped stem with button. Round the bowl opening on wavy text ribbon "LEVEN NEERLANDS VORSTEN" (long live the Dutch royals). Bowl left crowned coat of arms of the Netherlands and Orange with climbing lion with saber and arrows bundle in an oval with leaves with orange apples. Bowl right years "1813-1863" in oval of the same foliage with "NEERLANDS HERSTELLING ONDER HET HUIS VAN ORANIE NASSAU " (Dutch restoration under the House of Orange-Nassau). Mould seam front flag on flagpole with tassels. Curled spruce heel of bound pointy leaves that start on the underside of the bowl. Stem with two bands of shells with on the right "NEDERLAND" and left "EN ORANJE" (and Orange).

Date:

Vormdatum 1863 -
Period 1863 - 1865


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.97 in (5 cm)
Width1.14 in (2.9 cm)
StemLength4.33 in (11 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape office pipe shape
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownGouda
Acquisition
Year 1982
Provenance Amsterdam, Gérard Boilot, Le Petit Marchand
Amsterdam, veiling Sotheby Mak van Waay, 1982
Comments
Vgl. APM 5.741 bodemvondst met hetzelfde concept.
Literature
D.H. Duco (Don Duco), De tabakspijp als Oranjepropaganda. Leiden, 1992. p 62, afb 59. Dit exemplaar.
D.H. Duco (Don Duco), Vorstelijke pijpen, Inventarisatie van kleipijpen gewijd aan Nederland en Oranje. Leiden, 1992. p 75, nr 207. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine bodemvondsten, 29 september 1982 - 31 december 1993.
Apeldoorn, Rijksmuseum Paleis Het Loo, tentoonstelling "Ik rook Oranje, de pijp als propaganda", 10 juli 1992 - 27 september 1992.
Tentoonstellingstournee "Vorstelijke Pijpen, de tabakspijp als Oranjepropaganda", Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, 11 oktober 1992 - 22 november 1992, Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 27 november 1992 - 31 januari 1993, Rotterdam, Historisch Museum Schielandhuis, 14 februari 1993 - 11 april 1993, Hoorn, Westfriesmuseum, 23 april 1993 - 20 juni 1993 en Breda, Breda's Museum, 26 juni 1993 - 29 augustus 1993.
Wervik, Tabaksmuseum, tentoonstelling "Tabak & Vorsten", 19 januari 1994 - 25 november 1994.
Dillenburg, Dillenburger Museum, tentoonstelling "Oranien-Pfeifen", 2 juli 1996 - 25 augustus 1996.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Gouda, v.a. 2001.

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