Museum number:

APM 8.000

Subcollection:

ethnographic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

wheels

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware, so-called chibouque with funnel-shaped bowl, round base without heel and rising stem slightly widening towards the end. Bowl base on both sides axes which movable ceramic wheels the exterior decorated with radial incised lines. Pipe bowl round the bowl a band stamped and carved with geometrical decoration. Polished red slip.

Date:

Period 1850 - 1900


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Width2.36 in (6 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape chibuk
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip glued
Colourred
Finish engobe, rood
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentAsia
Region internationalWestern Asia
CountryTurkey
Region nationalIstanbul (province)
TownIstanbul
Acquisition
Year 1982
Provenance Londen, Paul Bentley, Astley's
Londen, Jermynstreet, Astley's, <1930-1982
Londen, collectie William Astley, c. 1920
Comments
Zogenaamd Assiut-ware, uit middenloop Nijl-gebied (?).
Literature
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), 8000 pijpen in Leiden. Fibula, tijdschrift NJBG, XXIV/1, 1983. p 19, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Turkije als centrum van de oost-Europese pijpenfabricage. LeidenPijpelijntjes, X/3, 1984. p 11, afb 12. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 63, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes (Benedict Goes), The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 63, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, The ubiquitos clay pipe. ParisThe Pipe Year Book 2001, /, 2001. p 59. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine etnografie, oktober 1982 - 31 december 1993.
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 9, v.a. 2001.

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