ARS FUMANDI

ARS FUMANDI

19 May - 19 June 2007

Author of the exhibition: Milica Križanac, curator at the Museum of Applied Art

Issues related to production and consumption of tobacco in the past are now becoming topic of research by scientists and museologists who apply historical data or use museum collections in order to understand, follow up and explain  the phenomenon of smoking tobacco. Europeans very carefully commissioned and craftsmen rather skillfully manufactured most beautiful, decorative and often luxurious objects for use of this exotic plant . These objects of artistic processing which served various needs related to tobacco smoking from the 17th till 20th centuries are collected and kept in the Museum of Applied art and  the present display will make them accessible to broader cultural public.
Smoking and use of Oriental type pipes had been brought to our parts by the Turks in the 17th century while the massive production of these items started in the 19th century. Ceramic, porcelain or meerschaum pipes are certainly the most representative objects of applied art directly related to the consumption of tobacco. Based on their forms and decoration it is possible to determine the epoch, financial standing but also the aesthetic criteria fostered by their owners.
The aim of the exhibition in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade is to document the tobacco consumption by objects of artistic crafts which are kept in museum collections (pipes, cigarette holders, narghiles, tobacco cases…) which were only sporadically researched in our country.

Exhibition

Ars Fumandi

Exhibition

Ars Fumandi

Vardar Cigarette packet

Cardboard, printed Domestic factory, 1929-1941 8 X 7 X 1.5 CM Inv. No 22956 Donation by Miloš Jurišić, Belgrade

Matchbox

Beads, velvet, chenille, metal Middle Europe, 1883 8.5 x 5.5 cm Inv. No 6881

Snuffbox

Porcelain, enamel colours; gold-plated metal Germany, 18th century 8.5 x 5 x3 cm Inv. No 5165

Cigarette case

Silver (875), casting; gold plating, enamel Russian Empire, Moscow, 1896-1908; workshop of Carl Fabergé 8.8 x 8.8. x 1.5 cm Inv. No 23003 Donation from the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia

Snuffbox

Silver, filigree; casting; Yugoslav stamp Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1919-1930 4.7 x 3.5 x 1.3 cm Inv. No 18976 Donation from Vladimir Joksić

Cigarette holder

Silver, casting, filigree; amber Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century Length 18.5 cm Inv. No 23007 Donation from Miloš Veseličić from Belgrade

Pipe

Porcelain, enamel colours, painting; silver, casting, openwork Germany, 19th century Pipe: Height 10.5 cm, Diameter 3.5. cm; Y mouth Height 9.5 cm, Diameter 2.7 cm Inv. No 1710 and 1709 (Y mouth of the stem)

Pipe

Meerschaum, carving; silver, cast; wood Austro-Hungarian Empire, 19th century Metal lid rim marked in two places with stamp J.K. Pipe: Length 14 cm, Height 16 cm; pipe stem 78.5 cm Inv. No 1691

Pipe

Meerschaum, carving; silver, cast, openwork; wood, enamel, mother-of-pearl, beadembroidery, amber Germany, mid-19th century Pipe: Length 17 cm, Height 14 cm; pipe stem 135 cm Inv. No 1715

Smoking table

Wood, brass, glass End of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century Table: 93.5 x 48 x 38.5 cm: Tobacco dose 8.7 x 7 cm; dose for cigarettes 6.8 x 5 cm; dose for cigars 6 x 5.5. cm; holder for matches 5.2 cm; tobacco cutter: 7 cm Inv. No 16045