Museum number:

APM 16.716

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

mirror monogram in cartouche

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with a cylindrical constricted Kalmas bowl with slightly outstanding bowl opening, weighted underside, round without heel and upgoing widening stem into a stub. Bowl front embossed in crowned circular cartouche mirror monogram of the letters "JA", flanked by palm branches, hemmed all around with curled leaves in symmetry that extend to the stem end. Stem undecorated. Original assembly with silver valve cover with open-cut valve with knob in a snout band. Stem end assembly made of silver with stem holder and locking ring. Both mountings are fixed with a sawn edge of stylized leaf motifs and drilled holes.

Date:

Period 1740 - 1765


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.07 in (7.8 cm)
Width1.54 in (3.9 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Kalmasch
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm (?)
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 765
Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002
Literature
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: Houten pijpenkop met spiegelmonogram. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Houten pijpenkop met spiegelmonogram. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Presentatie W.D. & H.O. Wills Hartcliffe Factory, Bristol, 1974-1990.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 2002-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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