Museum number:

APM 13.555

Subcollection:

ethnographic items

Title:

grave statue

Keyword:

seated smoking figure

Description:

Earthenware statuette representing a seated smoker as a man with legs raised and a strongly deformed back due to kyphosis, the left arm over the knees, the right elbow resting on the knee and a cigar in the right hand. Simple hairstyle with straight bangs, with a tail at the back. Multiple earrings on the ears, a double bracelet with floss-shaped decoration on both upper arms. Red fired clay, stroke burnished.

Date:

Period 0 - 300


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight9.25 in (23.5 cm)
Width7.48 in (19 cm)
Characteristics
Materialpottery (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourred
Finish gepolijst
Traces of use geen
Production
ContinentNorth America
Region internationalCentral America
CountryMexico
Region nationalNayarit
EthnicityChapalilla
Acquisition
Year 1993
Provenance Tilburg, America Antigua, Ted van Dijck
Comments
Afkomstig uit het graftombecomplex van Zuid-Nayarit en uitgevoerd in de zgn. San Sebastian red stijl. In de neus een stukje stofgoud.
Literature
Benedict Goes, 25 eeuwen roken; De verwonderlijke vormgeving van de pijp. , 1993. p 15, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Benedict Goes, The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes. Leiden, 1993. p 15, foto. Dit exemplaar.
Menno van der Laan, Uit verre landen; Koffie, thee en andere koloniale waren. Eindhoven, 2015. p 85. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die 2000 Jährige Geschichte der Tonpfeifen", 23 juni 1994 - 10 september 1994.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, 2001-2013.
's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, tentoonstelling "Uit verre landen, koffie, thee en andere koloniale waren", 5 juni 2015 - 13 september 2015.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 1, v.a. 2013.

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