Museum number:
| APM 8.722c |
Subcollection:
| ceramic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| head general De Gaulle |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of slip cast clay with hollow-walled trumpet shaped figural bowl, without heel and straight push in stem. Bowl stylized head of General De Gaulle with distinctive large nose and flat cap with flap on the front. Stem underside incised signature "GEM A 3/40". Art glaze in yellow-green colour. Originally black hard rubber mouthpiece with slightly curved flattened end and knot. Stem left intaglio "GEMA". |
Date:
| Period | 1970 - 1971 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.46 in (8.8 cm) |
| Width | 1.89 in (4.8 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.57 in (4 cm) |
| Length total | 4.72 in (12 cm) | |
| Weight | 64 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | slip (ceramic) |
| Technique | slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Other materials | hardrubber (synthetic material), aluminum (metal) |
| Finish | glazuur, crème |
| Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | France |
| Town | Vallauris |
| Maker | Marcel Giraud (ceramist) |
| Mark | "GEMA 32" (ingekrast, steel onderzijde) "GEMA" (intaglio, roer links) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2003 |
| Provenance | Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 79 |
| La Crau, Bernard Mamy, winkelvoorraad, <1995-2003 | |
| Parijs, collectie Mme. De Westphalen, 1971-1985> |
Comments
| Vervaardigd in een oplage van 40 genummerde exemplaren. |
Literature
| André Leclaire, Quelques marques de pipiers Français inusitées. LiverpoolJournal of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe, 10/, 2017. p 76, merk 14. Dit exemplaar (het merk). |
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