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 - 1780 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 3.07 in (7.8 cm) |
Width | 1.54 in (3.9 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 2.76 in (7 cm) |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | Kalmasch |
Material | wood |
Technique | carved |
Colour | brown |
Other materials | silver (metal) |
Finish | gemonteerd |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Baden-Wurttemberg |
Town | Ulm (?) |
Year | 2002 |
Provenance | Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 765 |
Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002 |
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. |
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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