Museum number:
APM 16.425 |
Subcollection:
meerschaum pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
helmet with four horses |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of meerschaum with a convex calmash bowl with protruding bowl opening, without a heel and a slightly rising stem with stub. Undecocrated. Original mounting with gold-plated silver. Bowl with a lid rim on which a helmet with an open visor and a hinged rear part on the helmet, a crest on which four horses, on both sides of the helmet, a winding snake. Helmet base and crest with horses gilt. Gold-plated silver cuff ring with stem holder and small locking ring. Silver marks on stem bottom and visor. In original case with inner white satin and white velvet, the outside with red leather, tooled with gold stamps along the edges, three closing hooks. |
Date:
Year | 1807 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 5.59 in (14.2 cm) |
Width | 2.28 in (5.8 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 4.72 in (12 cm) |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | Kalmasch |
Material | meerschaum (block) (stone) |
Technique | carved |
Colour | yellowish white |
Other materials | silver (metal), leather (animal material), fabric (fabric), wood |
Finish | gemonteerd, verguld |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | France |
Region national | Ile de France |
Town | Paris |
Maker | D. L' Honorey |
Mark | DL + twee eendjes (ingeslagen, div.) |
Year | 2001 |
Provenance | Amsterdam, collectie Lodewijk Houthakker, 1982-2001 |
Parijs, antiekhandel, 1982 |
Volgens Houthakker is deze pijp een geschenk van Napoleon aan een maarschalk bij de verovering van Venetië in 1807. Veilingcatalogus Christie's New York, c. 1999, p 36, lot 238. Toegeschreven aan Catherine-Adelaide Duponnois, Parijs, c. 1825, weduwe van Jean-Louis Leferre, die haar merk in 1822 registreert. Zij en haar man specialiseerden zich in kleine juwelen en tabacologische voorwerpen. |
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. Hoofdstuk: De paarden van de San Marco. Dit exemplaar. |
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. Hoofdstuk: De paarden van de San Marco. Dit exemplaar. |
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 5, v.a. 2002. |
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