Museum number:

APM 8.547

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

landscapes

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a slim, octagonal stummel bowl, button-shaped heel and straight stem for insertion with five windings. Bowl hand painted in black alternately two and three landscape silhouettes with historic buildings. Gold on panel edges, bowl opening and heel. Original brass lid with a spring clip of a rose and two leaves on stem, under the hinge a locking ring.

Date:

Period 1825 - 1845


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.06 in (10.3 cm)
Width1.22 in (3.1 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape achtkant stummel-shape
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Finish glazuur, zwart, bladgoud
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBohemia
TownPirkenhammer (?)
Acquisition
Year 1984
Provenance Londen, Portobelloroad antiquemarket
Londen, particulier bezit, <1975-1982
Literature
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 55, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 55, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Niels Gustav Bardenfleth, Kridtpiber og kridtpiberygning. Copenhagen, 2002. p 179. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine 19de eeuw, april 1985 - 31 december 1993.
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, stummelvitrine, v.a. 2013.

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