Museum number:

APM 15.338

Subcollection:

etnografische pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

geometric decoration

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with large size with cylindrical bowl, flat bottom with leak hole and rising stem for wooden insert stem. Bowl two concentric relief bands, the upper twisted cords, the bottom wide and flat on which circular portrait masks, with the remaining space the ground dotted, middle part consists of three layers, the lower and upper with each three upright ovals on which a stylized geometric frog, the middle with portrait masks, the remaining space with dotted fond.

Date:

Period 1955 - 1970


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight32 cm
BowlHeight32 cm
Width12,5 cm
StemLength22 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape cilindrisch
Materialaardewerk (ceramiek)
Techniquehandvorm
Colourbruingrijs
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityBamileke
Acquisition
Year 1998
Provenance Leiden, Arnold Wentholt
Nijmegen, particuliere collectie, <1980-1998
Comments
Verzameld rond 1970.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001.

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