Museum number:

APM 15.111

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

courtship of man and woman under tree

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a hexagonal stummel bowl, heel and straight stem with windings. Bowl handpainted hill with two truncated trees for which a man and a woman in courtship, standing behind a dog. Bowl rear sheep in a mountain meadow, hills in the background. Valve lid of silver with closure of a cartouche in which a deer's head. Original mounting with moist bag of buffalo horn with at the bottom a dog head with ivory stick in the mouth, straight up going buffalo horn stem with disk and bent mouthpiece with four knobs.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1865


Dimensions:

BowlHeight10,1 cm
Width3,1 cm
StemLength3,5 cm
Length total37 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape zeskant stummelvorm
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsbuffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), zilver (metaal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1976-1996
Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, 1976
Comments
Vgl. Eppe Ramazzotti & Bernard Mamy, Pipes et Fumeurs de Pipes, Bruxelles, 1981, p 87. afb 10AB. Vergelijkbare afbeelding: zeskante ketel met man en vrouw op een wip, uit dezelfde werkplaats. Collectie Mazaleyrat.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 6, v.a. 2001.

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