Numéro de la collection:

APM 19.852

Sous-collection:

pipes d'autres matériaux

Titre:

pipe à tabac

Mots-clés:

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:

Période 1800 - 1850


Tailles:

FourneauHauteur8,3 cm
Largeur4,6 cm
StemLongueur3,5 cm
Caractéristiques
Type de pipe tête de pipe
Forme de pipe figuratif
Matérialnoix de coquilla (matériel synthétique)
Techniquecoupé
Couleurrouge-marron
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Région internationaleEurope de l'Ouest
PaysFrance (?)
Statut juridique
Date 2009
Ancienne appartenance 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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