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:
| General | Height | 27.95 in (71 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 10.24 in (26 cm) |
| Width | 3.9 in (9.9 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.95 in (7.5 cm) |
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | Berliner grootformaat high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | buffalo horn (animal material), wood |
| Finish | handbeschilderd, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Year | 2009 |
| Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis lot 86 |
| Engeland, particulier bezit, <2000-2009 |
| 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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