Museum number:

APM 15.675

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

screaming German soldier

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of briar with figural bowl, without heel and ascending flattened stem with caoutchouc mouth piece. Bowl inverted the head of a screaming German soldier, the open mouth is the bowl opening, a moustache along the bowl rim, the helmet with comb and upright plume forms the bowl base, eyes of glass paste.

Date:

Period 1900 - 1920


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.19 in (8.1 cm)
Width1.77 in (4.5 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Length total5.12 in (13 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stem pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialbriar (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialshardrubber (synthetic material), glass paste (inorganic material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Region nationalJura
TownSaint-Claude (?)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, 1982-1999
Amsterdam, Spiegelstraat, 1982, prijs Dfl. 450,-
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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