Museum number:
| APM 8.717 |
Subcollection:
| clay pipes |
Title:
| cigar pipe |
Keyword:
| fish, frog |
Description:
Cigar pipe made of clay with tubular shape with figural bowl, without heel and flattened pointed mouthpiece. Bowl sea monster with open mouth, a frog in high relief on its head. Stem left intaglio "DUMERIL" and right "ST.OMER". Fully covered with yellow tinted lead glaze in which green veins. |
Date:
| Period | 1860 - 1870 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 2.72 in (6.9 cm) |
| Diameter | 0.47 in (1.2 cm) | |
| Weight | 11 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | tubular pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | pipe clay (ceramic) |
| Technique | press moulded |
| Colour | white |
| Finish | loodglazuur, transparant met groen |
| Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | France |
| Region national | Pas-de-Calais |
| Town | Saint-Omer |
| Maker | Firme E. Duméril, H. Leurs et Cie |
| Mark | "DUMERIL" (intaglio, steel li.) "ST. OMER" (intaglio, steel re.) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1985 |
| Provenance | Parijs, Denise Corbier, antiquaire |
| Parijs, antiekhandel, 1984 |
Comments
| Fairholt, 1859, p 223. Beeldt deze pijp af met de tekst: A very cheap holder has been made of pipe-clay, and is not deficient in quaint fancy. The example we select comes from the prolific pipe-factories in France, and costs but a penny. Vgl. APM 8.699 de persvorm van deze kleipijp. |
Exhibition
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine 19de eeuw, maart 1985 - 31 december 1993. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999. |
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