Museum number:
| APM 15.727 |
Subcollection:
| ethnographic pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| wooden bowl |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of silver with conical bowl, without heel and straight stem with narrow cuff band. Bowl underside long rat tail, cuff extra ring with pearl rim. Mounting with painted wooden stem with red geometric pattern on black. Stem silver end piece with concentric strap and setting in which a red coral stone. Matching wooden disk shaped bowl to search the smoked tobacco for usable lefts, attached to the stem with a leather strap. |
Date:
| Period | 1880 - 1920 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 1.26 in (3.2 cm) |
| Width | 0.75 in (1.9 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 5.31 in (13.5 cm) |
| Length total | 12.99 in (33 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | conic |
| Material | silver (metal) |
| Technique | forged |
| Colour | miscellaneous |
| Other materials | wood |
| Finish | lak, zwart, rood |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Asia |
| Region international | Central Asia |
| Country | Nepal |
| Region national | Kathmandu |
Acquisition
| Year | 1999 |
| Provenance | Brickerasio (Turijn), collectie Edouardo Daneo, 1976-1999 |
| Nepal, Kathmandu, 1976 |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, overloop, vitrine Azië, v.a. 2001. |
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