Museum number:
| APM 14.677 |
Subcollection:
| ceramic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| bark, branches with leaves and acorns |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with almost cylindrical bowl on globular weighted base, without heel and rising stem with round stub band. Bowl bark of thin stuck clay threads showing some twigs with leaves and acorns. Bowl base pressed circles on which stuck branches with leaves and acorns. Brown stone ware, the branches, leaves and acorns dark brown glaze. Stem underside at cuff ring for lock cord. Bowl bottom inside perforated. |
Date:
| Period | 1850 - 1900 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 5.35 in (13.6 cm) |
| Width | 2.4 in (6.1 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.74 in (9.5 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | cylindrical |
| Material | stoneware (ceramic) |
| Technique | hand-formed |
| Colour | gray |
| Finish | zoutglazuur, bruin |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Belgium |
| Region national | Hainaut |
| Town | Bouffioux (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Utrecht, nationale verzamelaarsjaarmarkt |
| Munsterbilzen, Peter Biesmans, 1994 | |
| Charleroi, particulier bezit, c. 1975 |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001. |
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