Museum number:

APM 16.485

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

ovals with portraits

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with bag shaped bowl, round bottom without heel and slightly upgoing stem widening to stub. Bowl standing on either side oval in which left in multicolor a bust of a woman turned to the left and to the right a black silhouette portrait of a man wearing a wig with tail and bow, the image surrounded by flowers painted in purple, bowl front monogram of the initials "FK".

Date:

Period 1775 - 1790


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.36 in (6 cm)
Width1.38 in (3.5 cm)
StemLength1.97 in (5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape bag shape
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueprinting mould
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 266
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2002.

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