Museum number:

APM 19.852

Subcollection:

pipes various materials

Title:

tobacco pipe

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:

BowlHeight3.27 in (8.3 cm)
Width1.81 in (4.6 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialcoquilla nut (organic material)
Techniquecarved
Colourred-brown
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance (?)
Acquisition
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-
Literature
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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