Museum number:

APM 13.225

Subcollection:

kleipijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

head man with glasses and headgear

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, heel marking and straight stem with button end. Bowl caricature representation of a donor with moustache and beard whose pointy goatee suggests the heel, squeezing glasses on the nose, high cylindrical hat with Turkish jewelry on the front and a worked lap under the hat around the head. Stem over the half length thickened and fluted and decorated with a collar followed by a round ribbon. Stem left embossed shape number "644". Stem intaglio "GAMBIER A PARIS M*M DEPOSE". Painted enamel in red, green, black and white. Stem end a string.

Date:

Period 1855 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3,9 cm
Width2,5 cm
StemLength13 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type steelpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialpijpaarde (ceramiek)
Techniquegekast
Colourwit
Finish email, vier kleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryFrankrijk
Region NationalArdennes
CityGivet
MakerGambier
Trade number 644
Trade name fantaisie l'usurier
Mark "GAMBIER A PARIS M*M DEPOSE" (intaglio, steel)
Acquisition
Year 1992
Provenance Brussel, Le Grenier du Collectionneur, Catalogus 75, 1992, nr 224, prijs Bfr. 7.000 (Dfl. 385,-)
Brussel, collectie Jean-Léo Rostagni, 1958-1992
Brussel, particulier bezit, 1958
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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