Museum number:

APM 15.600

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

head man with long beard and hat

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a hollow-walled figural bowl, without heel and rising stem with an unnoted stub. Bowl head of a man with long beard in two points, medium length hair. Natural painting, the hair gray white. Brass flap cover depicting a wide-brimmed hat, the centre part of which has a hinge and is embossed around with a leaf branch. Original stem of longitudinally grooved wood, two parts with horns fitting and bent horn mouthpiece.

Date:

Period 1860 - 1890


Dimensions:

BowlHeight10,6 cm
Width7 cm
StemLength4 cm
Length total46 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsmessing (metaal), buffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), hout
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland (?)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1984-1999
Wenen, antiekhandel, c. 1984
Literature
Ruud van der Neut, Toeback & toebehoren. Baarn, 2001. foto. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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