Numéro de la collection:
| APM 19.852 |
Sous-collection:
| pipes d'autres matériaux |
Titre:
| pipe à tabac |
Mots-clés:
| devil's head with snakes in the eyes |
Description :
Tobacco pipe from coquia nut (corozo) with figural bowl, heel marking and short stem without stub. Bowl oval-shaped head of a monster with horns, snakes come from both eye sockets with their heads on the forehead, in the open mouth a row of long pointed teeth, around the facial hair that is combed up. Stem turned on the back of the bowl and with a portrait mask of a kind of Indian head with feather headdress. Bowl inside the head of a clay pipe, closed with a circular lid with stylized leaf motifs and provided with a button in the shape of a beech nut, the lid flips open sideways. In the lid collector label with "BT. WEBSTER JAN. 1897 P.1428" and in white ink collection number Seita. |
Date:
| Période | 1800 - 1850 |
Tailles:
| Fourneau | Hauteur | 8,3 cm |
| Largeur | 4,6 cm | |
| Stem | Longueur | 3,5 cm |
| Type de pipe | tête de pipe |
| Forme de pipe | figuratif |
| Matérial | noix de coquilla (matériel synthétique) |
| Technique | coupé |
| Couleur | rouge-marron |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Région internationale | Europe de l'Ouest |
| Pays | France (?) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Ancienne appartenance | Riom, veilinghuis Piasa, lot 88 |
| Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1993-2009, coll. nr 1305 | |
| Parijs, vente publique (Ferri), 09-06-1993 | |
| Engeland, Bt. Webster, 1897- |
| Anoniem, Collection Musée de la Seita, Objets du tabac et de ses usages. , 2009. p 12, lot 88. Dit exemplaar (afgebeeld). |
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