Museum number:

APM 14.528

Subcollection:

clay pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust Jean Bart with hat

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem with stub. Bowl bust of Jean Bart with broad face with thin moustache and pimple on the cheek, medium length hair under a hat with wide slightly wavy rim with feather, bust with simple flat collar with points and central a button. Bowl bottom ornament with three angular points. Painted enamel in red, blue, black and white.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1855


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.91 in (7.4 cm)
Width1.89 in (4.8 cm)
StemLength1.77 in (4.5 cm)
Weight104 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpipe clay (ceramic)
Techniquepress moulded
Colourwhite
Finish email, vier kleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalArdennes
TownGivet
MakerBlanc-Garin & Guyot
Trade number 234
Trade name Jean-Bart
Mark "BLANC GARIN & GUYOT A GIVET" (stempel, steel re.)
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1973-1996
Dieppe, particuliere collectie, <1960-1973
Comments
Kaartspel Académie de la Pipe, Parijs, 2005. Schoppen vrouw, deze pijp.
Literature
Eric Martin, Jean Bart, history and legend. ParisLe Livre de la Pipe 1998, /, 1998. p 45. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, achterkamer, vitrine Frankrijk, v.a. 1999.

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