Museum number:

APM 14.677

Subcollection:

ceramic pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bark, branches with leaves and acorns

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of stoneware with almost cylindrical bowl on globular weighted base, without heel and rising stem with round stub band. Bowl bark of thin stuck clay threads showing some twigs with leaves and acorns. Bowl base pressed circles on which stuck branches with leaves and acorns. Brown stone ware, the branches, leaves and acorns dark brown glaze. Stem underside at cuff ring for lock cord. Bowl bottom inside perforated.

Date:

Period 1850 - 1900


Dimensions:

BowlHeight5.35 in (13.6 cm)
Width2.4 in (6.1 cm)
StemLength3.74 in (9.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialstoneware (ceramic)
Techniquehand-formed
Colourgray
Finish zoutglazuur, bruin
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryBelgium
Region nationalHainaut
TownBouffioux (?)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Utrecht, nationale verzamelaarsjaarmarkt
Munsterbilzen, Peter Biesmans, 1994
Charleroi, particulier bezit, c. 1975
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001.

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