Museum number:
| APM 15.139 |
Subcollection:
| ceramische pijpen |
Title:
| tabakspijp |
Keyword:
| snake with curled body |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with curved shape bowl with heel, circular stem and curved stem end. Stem three times around rotated body of a snake with scaly skin, the head at the base of the bowl, the tail is the stem end. Multi-coloured painting of yellow bowl opening, yellow head and yellow stem end, a yellow line between the windings of the snake body. Snake itself blue sampled on white foond. Print mould in two parts. |
Date:
| Period | 1800 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 25,5 cm |
| Bowl | Height | 4,3 cm |
| Width | 2,3 cm |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | steelpijp |
| Pipe shape | slurfvorm |
| Material | aardewerk (ceramiek) |
| Technique | drukvorm |
| Colour | geelwit |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | Engeland |
| Region National | Staffordshire |
| City | Stafford |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1984-1996 |
| Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1984 |
Literature
| Peter J. Davey, The 'English' pipes in the Rothschild collection: typology, chronology and provenance. LiverpoolJournal of the Académie Internationale de la PIpe, /9, 2016. p 53, fig 9, afb 5. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001. |
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