Museum number:
| APM 15.139 |
Subcollection:
| ceramic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| snake with curled body |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of earthenware with curved shape bowl with heel, circular stem and curved stem end. Stem three times around rotated body of a snake with scaly skin, the head at the base of the bowl, the tail is the stem end. Multi-coloured painting of yellow bowl opening, yellow head and yellow stem end, a yellow line between the windings of the snake body. Snake itself blue sampled on white foond. Print mould in two parts. |
Date:
| Period | 1800 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| General | Length | 10.04 in (25.5 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 1.69 in (4.3 cm) |
| Width | 0.91 in (2.3 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stem pipe |
| Pipe shape | trunk shape |
| Material | pottery (ceramic) |
| Technique | printing mould |
| Colour | yellowish white |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | England |
| Region national | Staffordshire |
| Town | Stafford |
Acquisition
| Year | 1996 |
| Provenance | Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1984-1996 |
| Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1984 |
Literature
| Peter J. Davey, The 'English' pipes in the Rothschild collection: typology, chronology and provenance. LiverpoolJournal of the Académie Internationale de la PIpe, /9, 2016. p 53, fig 9, afb 5. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 8, v.a. 2001. |
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