Museum number:

APM 5.028

Subcollection:

excavated pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

acorn in shell, leaf

Description:

Tabakspijp van klei met figurale ketel, figurale hiel en licht gebogen steel met afgeplat steeleind en knoop. Snijfilt. Ketel en hiel de vorm van een eikel. Ketel voorzijde in reliëf geribd blad.

Date:

Period 1900 - 1925


Dimensions:

BowlHeight1.46 in (3.7 cm)
Width0.91 in (2.3 cm)
StemLength3.74 in (9.5 cm)
Weight19 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryEngland
Acquisition
Year 1974
Provenance Colchester, Leonard Gant
Colchester, antiekhandel, c. 1973
Excavation site Colchester, 1973
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkamer Icon, permanente presentatie, vitrine Engeland, 18 juni 1975 - september 1981.

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