Museum number:

APM 15.525

Subcollection:

etnografische pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

face with chubby cheeks, spiders

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of earthenware as a gift item of status object with large figural bowl, underside a leak hole and ascending stem without cuff. Bowl front a human face with round cheeks and discreet mouth hidden between bulbous cheeks, head tucked with spiders in high relief. Connection belt between bowl opening and stem end. Stem twice with two nodules.

Date:

Period 1920 - 1945


Dimensions:

BowlHeight44 cm
Width28,5 cm
StemLength31 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialaardewerk (ceramiek)
Techniquehandvorm
Colourzwart
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentAfrika
Region InternationalWest-Afrika
CountryKameroen
Region NationalGraslanden
EthnicityBamum
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Tikar, Ndam Njoya Adamou
Kameroen, Douala, antiekhandel, 1999
Comments
Patina van roet is veroorzaakt door het liggen op de zolder van een hut met stookplaats.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 10, v.a. 2001.

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