Museum number:
| APM 20.262 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| Tobias and the angel |
Description:
Porcelain tobacco pipe with large stummel bowl, button heel and straight insert stem with five constrictions. Bowl front hand-painted in polychrome Tobias with fish opposite an angel seen from the back, the representation in a rectangular frame of gold leaf. Steel intaglio size number "11". Stem end blue line. |
Date:
| Period | 1830 - 1860 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 5 in (12.7 cm) |
| Width | 1.77 in (4.5 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.57 in (4 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insert pipe |
| Pipe shape | Berliner high oval stummel porcelain bowl |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | thrown (potters' wheel), slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren, bladgoud |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Berlin (state) |
| Town | Berlin |
| Maker | Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2010 |
| Provenance | 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan |
| München, antiekhandel, 2010 |
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