Museum number:

APM 19.715

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

"PORTA WESTFALIA MUNSTER", landscape, cityview

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a large stummel bowl, knob heel and straight insert stem. The bowl is hollow-walled, the inner bowl a lot smaller and shallower than the outer. Bowl front handpainted in rectangle with gold rim landscape with a mountain on both sides, overgrown with trees. Original base as moist trap with a spherical shape, on the front in a gold leaf trim view on Münster, below "PORTA WESTFALIA MUNSTER", on the bottom of the leaf gold leaf motifs. Original mounting with an upright wooden stem with buffalo horn band with concentric twisted circle, after a button a buffalo horn stem end with limp and curved horn end piece.

Date:

Period 1800 - 1820


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight27.95 in (71 cm)
BowlHeight10.24 in (26 cm)
Width3.9 in (9.9 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape Berliner grootformaat high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn (animal material), wood
Finish handbeschilderd, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance Londen, veilinghuis lot 86
Engeland, particulier bezit, <2000-2009
Comments
De naam Porta Westfalica werd rond 1800 gegeven aan de Weservallei in Oost-Westfalen toen een doorbraak van de Weser door het Wesergebergte werd gemaakt. Die naamsgeving gebeurde in de tijd dat de hogere kringen in de Duitse bourgeoisie graag Frans en Latijn spraken.

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