"Stummel" tobacco pipe, stem and mouthpiece; Hannover, Germany, c. 1812.

"Stummel" tobacco pipe, stem and mouthpiece; Hannover, Germany, c. 1812.
Enameled and possibly gilded porcelain, gilded metal, wood and shaft.
It has inscriptions with the members of the 1811-1822 course of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg.
Measurements: 11 x 4 x 4 cm; 4 cm.
Pipe type stummel with porcelain bowl decorated with inscriptions of the course 1811-1822 of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg.
The Corps Hannovera Heidelberg was founded in 1810 as a branch corps of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen after the departure of the Göttingen student corps as a result of the gendarme affair of 1809. The colors of this corps, "red-blue", were identical to those of the parent corps in Göttingen, as was the motto "Nunquam retrorsum".
The most famous shape of the porcelain tobacco pipe is the so-called stummel, an oval bowl with a domed heel and a short mouthpiece. The shape was copied from the Gouda clay pipe, but the assembly is completely different, as a long porcelain mouthpiece is not possible. Therefore, these pipes were placed in a buffalo horn or porcelain humidity chamber and then mounted with a vertical mouthpiece of wood or horn.
The stummel is well suited for painting and it is amazing the level of development that painting on porcelain has reached. Since its inception in 1780, meticulous paintings were created, all by hand. Subjects include portraits, gallant depictions, topography and historical scenes. The Meissen factory seems to be the pioneer in the creation of these painted bowls, characterized by endless tufts applied with a fine brush. At the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur in Berlin, the painting was done with even more realistic realism, resulting in impressive miniature paintings on bowls. To enhance the effect of a real painting, the images were framed with gold leaf. Contemporary prints were used as examples to paint topical subjects that appealed to the consumer of the time. Since the painters worked from the prints, we often see the colors of the scenes differ completely.