Museum number:

APM 16.568

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

grotesque leaf motifs

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with tulip-shaped bowl with slightly outstanding bowl opening, belly base and round bottom without heel, rising stem with smooth stub. Bowl on both sides in embossed circular rosette with spokes. Painting in glaze colors in green, yellow, brown and purple of leaf, lily and volute motifs in a band under the bowl opening and around the stem. Rosette and stem a ring in purple.

Date:

Period 1745 - 1775


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4,9 cm
Width3 cm
StemLength4 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape tulpvorm
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquedrukvorm
Colourwit
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 765
Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002
Exhibition
Presentatie W.D. & H.O. Wills Hartcliffe Factory, Bristol, 1974-1990.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2002.
Amsterdam Pipe Museum, Vroege Meisner pijpenkoppen in het spotlight, 3 maart-4 mei 2025. Verlengd tot 22 juni 2025.

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