Museum number:

APM 9.281

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

"WILLEM III", "ZILVERFEEST 12 MEI 1874", Stanhope glass

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with so-called doetelknoop bowl, without heel and straight stem with button end. Bowl left embossed between an oak branch and a laurel branch held together with a tied ribbon the bust of King William III in gala uniform with distinctions and sash, above a text ribbon with clipped ends on which "WILLEM III". Bowl right the inauguration ceremony in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) with the king standing under a canopy with one hand on the king's crown and the other raised for the oath. Stem left "ZILVERFEEST 12 MAY 1874" (silver party) and "GEHULDIGD 12 MAY 1849" (assigned). In the stem corner a spherical holder with a Stanhope glass in which the oval portrait of king William III with below "WILLEM III, KONING DER NEDERLANDEN".

Date:

Vormdatum 1874 -
Period 1874 - 1875


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.85 in (4.7 cm)
Width1.26 in (3.2 cm)
StemLength4.13 in (10.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape heavy office pipe shape
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish verf, oranje
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownGouda
Acquisition
Year 1986
Provenance Tuil, J.F. Polderman
Literature
D.H. Duco, De tabakspijp als Oranjepropaganda. Leiden, 1992. p 74, afb 73. Dit exemplaar.
D.H. Duco, Vorstelijke pijpen, Inventarisatie van kleipijpen gewijd aan Nederland en Oranje. Leiden, 1992. p 87, nr 239. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, aaaDe Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor het determineren. Amsterdam, 2024. hfst 5, p , afb 542. hfst 6, p , afb 290. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
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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