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:
| Bowl | Height | 3.27 in (8.3 cm) |
| Width | 1.81 in (4.6 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | coquilla nut (organic material) |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | red-brown |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | France (?) |
| 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- |
| 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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