Museum number:

APM 17.079

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

mask between Louis XV ornaments

Description:

Tobacco pipe of meerschaum with a cylindrical bowl with a protruding bowl opening, flat base without heel and ascending stem with stub, a volute as a connection between bowl and stem. Bowl to the front hand-carved mask head of a man with an open mouth from which a source emerges, in a frame of Louis XV motifs with leaf work and c-volutes on the bowl base and stem continuous in two cartouches. Connecting band between bowl and stem with double c-volutes with leaf motifs. Original silver lid with double drum and surrounding printed embossed bands, clamping spring as closure. Silver stub ring with locking eye. Original stem in ivory with oval-shaped thickening with diamond motif and button with ornament, loosely wound with copper wire and flattened ivory bite with two buttons.

Date:

Year 1840


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.25 in (10.8 cm)
Width2.24 in (5.7 cm)
StemLength2.56 in (6.5 cm)
Length total14.96 in (38 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialmeerschaum (block) (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colouryellow-brown
Other materialssilver (metal), ivory (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountryAustria
Region nationalVienna (province)
TownVienna
MakerSydon Noltze
Mark N (ingedrukt, manchet)
Acquisition
Year 2003
Provenance Utrecht, Bart Lankhorst, Douwe Egberts
Utrecht, Douwe Egberts Pijpenkamer, 1963-2003, nr 433
Zeist, G. de Kruijff, antiquair, 1960-1963
Zeist, collectie Henk van der Hoef, <1940-1960
Comments
Prachtige ornamentiek die kunstzinig is gesneden en op gepaste wijze om de ketel en steel sluit. Het ivoren roer komt pas tot zijn recht wanneer de pijp doorgerookt is.
Besproken in de video bij de presentatie Openluchtmuseum, Arnhem, 2004.
Exhibition
Arnhem, Openluchtmuseum, pijpencollectie in paviljoen Sparenburg, september 2004 - januari 2015.

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