Museum number:
| APM 19.852 |
Subcollection:
| pijpen overige materialen |
Title:
| tabakspijp |
Keyword:
| devil's head with snakes in the eyes |
Description:
Tobacco pipe from coquia nut (corozo) with figural bowl, heel marking and short stem without stub. Bowl oval-shaped head of a monster with horns, snakes come from both eye sockets with their heads on the forehead, in the open mouth a row of long pointed teeth, around the facial hair that is combed up. Stem turned on the back of the bowl and with a portrait mask of a kind of Indian head with feather headdress. Bowl inside the head of a clay pipe, closed with a circular lid with stylized leaf motifs and provided with a button in the shape of a beech nut, the lid flips open sideways. In the lid collector label with "BT. WEBSTER JAN. 1897 P.1428" and in white ink collection number Seita. |
Date:
| Period | 1800 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 8,3 cm |
| Width | 4,6 cm | |
| Stem | Length | 3,5 cm |
| Pipe type | manchetpijp |
| Pipe shape | figuraal |
| Material | coquillanoot (organisch materiaal) |
| Technique | gesneden |
| Colour | roodbruin |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | Frankrijk (?) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Provenance | Riom, veilinghuis Piasa, lot 88 |
| Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1993-2009, coll. nr 1305 | |
| Parijs, vente publique (Ferri), 09-06-1993 | |
| Engeland, Bt. Webster, 1897- |
| Anoniem, Collection Musée de la Seita, Objets du tabac et de ses usages. , 2009. p 12, lot 88. Dit exemplaar (afgebeeld). |
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