Museum number:
| APM 19.673 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| sawasa colors, flower branch with bird |
Description:
Tobacco pipe of red copper and gold, so-called kiseru with a small funnel-shaped bowl, without a heel, standing on a straight, slightly widening stem, thin bamboo stem and copper mouthpiece that slowly tapers towards the end without a knot. Metal in sawasa colors and technique, the bowl gold, the stub ends gold, the mouthpiece slanted gold. Stem on the right near the bowl engraved and filled in with gold, bird on a flower branch, stem near the mouthpiece flower branch. Stem ends twice hammered hallmark. Dark bamboo stem with knot and burnt clouds. |
Date:
| Period | 1800 - 1880 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 0.55 in (1.4 cm) |
| Width | 0.39 in (1 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.77 in (4.5 cm) |
| Length total | 7.48 in (19 cm) | |
| Weight | 24 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | kiseru |
| Material | copper (metal) |
| Technique | forged |
| Colour | black |
| Other materials | bamboo (wood), gold (metal) |
| Oher techniques | blackened |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Asia |
| Region international | East Asia |
| Country | Japan |
| Mark | keurmerken (2x) (intaglio, steeleinden) karakters (gegraveerd, steeleind) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2009 |
| Provenance | Zutphen, Jos Ott, antiquair |
| Brussel, particulier bezit, <1972-2009 | |
| Parijs, antiquair, 1970-1972 |
Literature
| Don Duco, Japanse rookattributen uit de Meijiperiode, een inleiding. Amsterdam, 2021. afb 5. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, werkkamer, kiseruvitrine 1, 2011 e.v. |
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