Museum number:

APM 15.100

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

head man with helmet with chin strap

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with hollow-walled figural bowl, without heel and rising stem without stub. Bowl the head of a hussar with thin mustache and convex helmet with small flap at the front and braided chin strap, helmet front plume with feathers. Porcelain valve cover on which sitting animal. Stem end embossed leaf motif with incised edges. Painting in natural colours, the matt cobalt blue helmet, the stem partly sky blue with green leaves. Original fitting of brass lid ring and cuff strap with locking eye.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight9 cm
Width4,7 cm
StemLength4 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsmessing (metaal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1992-1996
Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, 1992
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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