Museum number:

APM 14.637

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

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:

BowlHeight8,5 cm
Width7 cm
StemLength3 cm
Length total28 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsbuffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), kersenhout (hout)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalThüringen
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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