Museum number:

APM 16.083

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

coat of arms with helmet and tarpaulins

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with oval bowl on moisture lock with two-sided flattened bottom without heel and ascending stem with stub. Bowl front hand-painted in polychrome coat of arms with standing lion and crowns with a show helmet with lion with halberd as a helmet sign, flight in blue, red and silver, underneath spell with "VOLENTI.NIL.DIFFICILE", below crowned Gothic letter J with lion with halberd in Crown. Bowl reverse side in black "K.J. JENNINGS SEINEM WYALL GIBBS BONN 1846". Bowl internally and stem internally blue underglaze stripe. Stub end face intaglio size number "2".

Date:

Year 1846


Dimensions:

BowlHeight5.63 in (14.3 cm)
Width1.46 in (3.7 cm)
StemLength2.56 in (6.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape oval
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalSaxony Anhalt
TownAlthaldensleben
Maker Firma Nathusius
Mark streep (verf, ketel, steel inwendig)
Acquisition
Year 2000
Provenance Heidelberg, veilinghuis Metz, lot 104
Bazel, collectie Haegeli, <1970-2000
Literature
Walter Morgenroth, Rund um den Tabak; Sammlung Haegeli, Schweiz 1898-1998. Heidelberg, 2000. p 92, lot 104. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 6, v.a. 2001.

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