Museum number:

APM 16.485

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

ovals with portraits

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with bag shaped bowl, round bottom without heel and slightly upgoing stem widening to stub. Bowl standing on either side oval in which left in multicolor a bust of a woman turned to the left and to the right a black silhouette portrait of a man wearing a wig with tail and bow, the image surrounded by flowers painted in purple, bowl front monogram of the initials "FK".

Date:

Period 1775 - 1790


Dimensions:

BowlHeight6 cm
Width3,5 cm
StemLength5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape zakvorm
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquedrukvorm
Colourwit
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Parijs, veilinghuis Nouveau Drouot, lot 266
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2002.

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