Museum number:
| APM 14.637 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| skull, foliage |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a hollow-walled figural bowl, a knob heel and a straight push in stem with constrictions around the end. Bowl skull with some missing teeth, painted with brown and black accents at eye sockets, nose and temples. Matching moist bag in the same colors with embossed a rocaille-like motif on both sides. Original straight cherry wood stem attached to a buffalo horn end piece with bent mouthpiece. Locking string with tassels. |
Date:
| Period | 1870 - 1910 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.35 in (8.5 cm) |
| Width | 2.76 in (7 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
| Length total | 11.02 in (28 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | buffalo horn (animal material), cherrywood (wood) |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Thuringia |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Parijs, Serpette, marché aux puces |
| Parijs, antiekhandel, 1996 |
Comments
| Stichting Pijpenkabinet, ansichtkaart, 1998. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001. |
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