Museum number:

APM 1.298

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

woman with bare bosom

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with a high cylindrical bowl, knob heel and straight insertion stem with four windings. Bowl front a rectangle with gold leaf frame with a woman with partly bare chest, her head on a pillow, in the bottom right corner a basket of fruits, curtains along both sides, cords above. Heel intaglio size number "8", stem end light blue under glaze stripe. Original silver valve cover with flat model with closing ball, lid internal label with handwritten collection number "222". Original mounting with porcelain moisture reservoir with flattened foot with ridges on the bottom, golden lines round the openings, the bowl protected by a wooden stopper and ascending cherry wood stem with buffalo horn end piece and slightly curved mouthpiece with button.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1840


Dimensions:

GeneralLength13.58 in (34.5 cm)
BowlHeight4.45 in (11.3 cm)
Width1.3 in (3.3 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape cilinder high oval stummel porcelain bowl
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniquethrown (potters' wheel), slip cast
Colourwhite
Other materialsbuffalo horn (animal material), silver (metal), cherrywood (wood)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBerlin (state)
TownBerlin
MakerKönigliche Porzellan Manufaktur
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 65
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
De zak is kenmerkend voor Berlijn vanaf 1820.

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