Museum number:

APM 15.671

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

grotesque fantasy animal

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with figural bowl, round base without heel and upgoing stem widening to the end. Bowl a sitting fantasy animal, the lid is the head with four holes for the supply of air. Stem on both sides primitive carved silhouette of a man. Silver stem end with holder for the stem having silver marks (including three crowns). Originally greenish turned buffalo horn stem with baluster, flexible part and buttoned end piece. Original locking cord with two tassels.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1870


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Width2.76 in (7 cm)
StemLength4.33 in (11 cm)
Length total23.62 in (60 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalNorth Europe
CountrySweden
Mark zilvermerken (ingeslagen, steeleind)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1993-1999
Hongarije, antiekhandel, c. 1993, prijs Dfl. 240,-
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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