Museum number:

APM 14.590

Subcollection:

kleipijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

bust Joséphine de Beauharnais

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem with stub. Bowl bust of Josephphine de Beauharnais her hair in two braids along the temples and a bun turned behind the head, crown with pearls, bust with pearl necklace and pendant and décolleté with clothing collar round the edge. Press mould in three parts. Bowl bottom stamped maker’s mark "DUMERIL LEURS & C. A ST. OMER".

Date:

Period 1845 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight7,3 cm
Width4,3 cm
StemLength4 cm
Weight74 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialpijpaarde (ceramiek)
Techniquegekast
Colourwit
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryFrankrijk
Region NationalPas-de-Calais
CitySaint-Omer
MakerFirme E. Duméril, H. Leurs et Cie
Mark "DUMERIL LEURS & C. A ST. OMER" (stempel, ketel oz.)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Amsterdam, Dick Leijenaar, antiekmarkt De Looier
Verenigde Staten, Massachusetts, Chicopee, antiekhandel, 1996
Comments
Vgl. APM 16.158 dezelfde pijpenkop tot borstbeeld vermaakt.
Literature
Don Duco, The Intriguing world of the French clay pipe. WoubruggePipe, the worldwide pipe smoke's magazine, 10/2, 1999. p 16. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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