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:

GeneralLength25,5 cm
BowlHeight4,3 cm
Width2,3 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type steelpijp
Pipe shape slurfvorm
Materialaardewerk (ceramiek)
Techniquedrukvorm
Colourgeelwit
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryEngeland
Region NationalStaffordshire
CityStafford
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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