Museum number:
| APM 15.637 |
Subcollection:
| meerschaum pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| sitting dog |
Description:
|
Tobacco pipe made of meerschaum with cylindrical Hungarian bowl, round bottom without heel and rising stem with stub. Bowl undecorated. Mounting with gilded silver lid with sawn edge with alternating diamond shapes and dots, flat top on which a sitting dog, gilded silver stub ring with stem holder and large support eye. Lid and cuff ring each three silver marks. Original stem of wood with twisted piece inlaid with copper and a hexagonal piece with intarsia woodwork, buttons and limp, stem end with snap button. Original security cord with two tassels in three colours with flat top of braided silver wire. |
Date:
| Period | 1820 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 6.3 in (16 cm) |
| Width | 2.13 in (5.4 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.54 in (9 cm) |
| Length total | 37.01 in (94 cm) |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | Hungarian |
| Material | block meerschaum (stone) |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | yellow-brown |
| Other materials | silver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material), wood |
| Oher techniques | gilt |
| Finish | gemonteerd |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany (?) |
| Mark | veld met stippen (ingeslagen, filtring, steelhouder) CC (ingeslagen, filtring, steelhouder) kruis in schild (ingeslagen, filtring, steelhouder) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Provenance | Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1982-1999 |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 5, v.a. 2001. |
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