Museum number:

APM 14.465

Subcollection:

kleipijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

curassier with rifle

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with oval shape bowl, curled spur and rising straight stem with slightly curved end with button. In high relief on the top of the stem a curassier dressed in chest harness, helmet with hanging plume, épaulettes and a gun to the right up to the floor, the soldiers feet against a heel that rest against the bowl. Stem left embossed "GAMBIER 1019", stem right "A PARIS". Painted enamel in pink, white and black.

Date:

Period 1870 - 1890


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3,9 cm
Width2,7 cm
StemLength14 cm
Weight36 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type steelpijp
Pipe shape ovaalvorm
Materialpijpaarde (ceramiek)
Techniquegekast
Colourwit
Finish email, drie kleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryFrankrijk
Region NationalArdennes
CityGivet
MakerGambier
Trade number 1019
Trade name fantaisie cuirassier, tuyau courbé
Mark "GAMBIER 1019" (reliëf, steel links)
"A PARIS" (reliëf, steel rechts)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1976-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1976
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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