Museum number:

APM 12.814

Subcollection:

excavated pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

Delft blue painting

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with slightly bulbous funnel shaped bowl with narrow neck and heel. Gouda manufacture, painted in Harlingen with a blue decoration on a white tin glaze surface depicting a stemmed tulip on the front of the bowl seam and a five-leaved rose on the back side, the space in between with leaf motifs and some dots. Bowl back between two lines a band with dots. Flat base of the heel in plain blue paint.

Date:

Period 1700 - 1720


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.57 in (4 cm)
Width0.87 in (2.2 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape funnel shape
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish tinglazuur, Delftsblauw
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalSouth Holland
TownGouda
Maker #1Arij Jacobsz. Danens
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalFriesland
TownHarlingen
Mark molen (stempel, hiel)
Acquisition
Year 1992
Provenance Franeker, collectie Klaas Regts, 1983-1992
Excavation site Harlingen, 1983
Literature
Don Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor determineren. Amsterdam, 2026. hfst 6, p 364, afb 275. Dit exemplaar.

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