Museum number:

APM 15.115

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

man with saber, geometric decoration

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with four-sided bowl, standing on four openwork green volutes, without heel and up going stem with stub. Bowl handpainted front twice a standing man with saber, rear two compartments filled with geometric curled lines, the volutes with green. Original brass valve cover with openwork edge and closure of stylized leaf motif and brass stub ring. Original stem of buffalo horn inlaid with ivory and longitudinally ribbed ivory baluster, green locking cord with two balls.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1855


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.09 in (10.4 cm)
Width1.38 in (3.5 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Length total10.24 in (26 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape four sided
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn, ivory (animal material), brass (metal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBohemia
TownPirkenhammer
Maker Fischer & Reichenbach
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1989-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1989
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 6, v.a. 2001.

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