Museum number:

APM 15.090

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

table pipe, head Georges III

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain, so-called table pipe with large hollow-walled figural bowl, flat bottom and discreet opening on the bowl base for flexible stem. Bowl head of Georges III with straight half-length hair with curly part for the ears and short curling edge at the neck, a narrow collar forms the basis. Painting in natural colours, eyes brown, collar green. Mould in two parts with visible seam vertically over the face. Original stem consisting of a flexible hose with brown velvet wrapped and threaded, buffalo horn end piece with mouthpiece.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight12,5 cm
Width12 cm
StemLength total131 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsbuffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), stof (textiel)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalBohemen (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1979-1996
Londen, Antiquarius, Brian Tipping, 1979
Comments
Vgl. APM 20.578 zelfde pijp maar met drie slangen, de ogen hier blauw.
Literature
Bernard Mamy, Eppe Ramazzotti, Pipes et fumeurs de pipes; un art, des collections. Parijs, 1981. p 86. Fourneau de pipe, grande tête en porcelaine, Georges III. Pipe satyrique exécutée pour protester contre les taxes frappant le tabac que ce roi avait imposées à l'Angleterre; se posait sur une table et se fumait avec un tuyau flexible, Angleterre, XIXe siècle, collection privée (Dit exemplaar).
Ruud van der Neut, Toeback & toebehoren. Baarn, 2001. foto. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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