Museum number:

APM 31.114

Subcollection:

kleipijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

long bridel pipe with Catharine the Great, "D:GEWAPENDE NEUTRALITEIT" (armed neutrality)

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay decorated as groom pipe with oval Gouda bowl, heel and straight stem with smooth cut stem end. Bowl left embossed on a right shaded pedestal sitting on a throne tsarina Catherine II with crown, scepter and palm branch against a background of ornamental work, in front of her coat of arms with double-headed eagle, left top hanging on a ribbon coat of arms with bottom text ribbon "ZWEDEN" replaced by embossed flower buds. On top along ribbon "D:GEWAPENDE NEUTRALITEIT". Bowl right embossed inside the fence of the Dutch garden sitting virgin with staff and freedom hat, for her book with unreadable inscription, left standing Dutch lion with bunch of arrows and sword, right on ribbon coat of arms with underneath flower buds that removed the inscription "DENEM.", including oval coat of arms of the House of Orange. Bowl front all seeing eye with rays. Bowl rear mould seams with comb strokes. Heel left side mark Gouda coat of arms. Stem embossed over 22 centimeters of swaying flower branch with bunches of grapes, closed with a three-centimeter track with cross bands with dots, between the branch left "C: PRINCE" and right "IN GOUDA". Stem decorated with four ribbons on which fabric flowers, stem end sleeve bird feather.

Date:

Vormdatum	1770 - 1780
Period	1830 - 1865

Dimensions:

Bowl	Height	5,7 cm
	Width	2,8 cm
Stem	Length total	70 cm
Weight		63 gram
Other dimensions	lengte inclusief vogeltip: 74 cm