Museum number:

APM 1.628

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust general

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with high cylindrical stummel bowl, knob heel and straight stem with five windings. Bowl front in rectangle with gold leaf frame hand painted bust of a man looking to the front in military uniform with upright embroidered collar, sash over the chest and striped belly band. Heel intaglio size number "8" and stem end under glaze blue stripe. Silver valve cover with flat lid with ball as closure, lid internal label with handwritten collection number "264". Original mounting with porcelain moisture trap with slender slightly curved shape and gold rims around the openings, a wooden stop to protect the bowl, rising stem with silver ferrule with round shape on the front embossed oval on which crowned gothic initial "L", bent buffalo horn mouthpiece with button.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1840


Dimensions:

GeneralLength12.8 in (32.5 cm)
BowlHeight4.45 in (11.3 cm)
Width1.34 in (3.4 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape cilinder high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn (animal material), silver (metal), cherrywood (wood)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBerlin (state)
TownBerlin
MakerKönigliche Porzellan Manufaktur
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 61
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
De gekroonde L op de steel zou betrekking op de voorgestelde kunnen hebben.

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