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:
| Bowl | Height | 3,9 cm |
| Width | 2,5 cm | |
| Stem | Length | 13 cm |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | steelpijp |
| Pipe shape | figuraal |
| Material | pijpaarde (ceramiek) |
| Technique | gekast |
| Colour | wit |
| Finish | email, vier kleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | Frankrijk |
| Region National | Ardennes |
| City | Givet |
| Maker | Gambier |
| 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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