Museum number:
| APM 9.622 |
Subcollection:
| prehistoric pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| cactus in half bloom |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with oval spherical bowl with around zigzag swinging cooling fins and top that is cylindrically extended with incised decoration of slashes between vertical lines, intended to resemble a cactus in half bloom. Bowl on two pointed legs, also decorated with stripes. Straight stem with five double rows of pressed lines at the top. Stem polished, mouthpiece finished with white slip. |
Date:
| Period | 300 - 600 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.27 in (8.3 cm) |
| Width | 2.48 in (6.3 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 11.81 in (30 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stem pipe |
| Pipe shape | bulbous |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | gray black |
| Finish | engobe, witgetint |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | North America |
| Region international | Central America |
| Country | Mexico |
| Region national | Michoacán |
| Ethnicity | Tarascan |
Acquisition
| Year | 1988 |
| Provenance | Tilburg, America Antigua, Ted van Dijck |
| Phoenix, Arizona, collectie Peter G. Wray, 1987 |
Comments
| Vgl. APM 9.621 zelfde type pijp maar in volbloei. Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998. |
Literature
| Don Duco, Een pijp naar de natuur, vormgevingsaspecten bij precolumbiaanse tabakspijpen. Amsterdam, 1995. afb 10. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Aspects of designs of pre-Columbian tobacco pipes. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1996, /, 1996. p 74. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, The ubiquitos clay pipe. ParisThe Pipe Year Book 2001, /, 2001. p 53. Dit exemplaar. |
| Niels Gustav Bardenfleth, Kridtpiber og kridtpiberygning. Copenhagen, 2002. p 15. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: De mescalinecactus als inspiratie. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: De mescalinecactus als inspiratie. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine etnografie, februari 1988 - september 1992. |
| Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum, tentoonstelling "500 jaar tabakscultuur", 9 oktober 1992 - 9 oktober 1993. |
| Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, 2001-2013. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, v.a. 2013. |
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