Museum number:

APM 17.156

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

sultan, servant, monogrammed lion

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm-shaped cylindrical waisted bowl, round underside without heel and rising stem with vague cuff. Bowl bottom a rib. Bowl interior sheet iron. Mounted with silver valve cover with dome shape with embossed leaf and flower motifs, centrally crowned by a seated sultan, a servant in front of him, the clamping spring an S-shape on which a standing lion holding a coat of arms on which gold initials "JSR". Silver stub ring with band sawed open, plate with engraved leaves on it and stem holder with locking ring in the shape of a standing figure. Bowl ring silver hall marks.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.46 in (8.8 cm)
Width1.65 in (4.2 cm)
StemLength3.15 in (8 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Ulm shape
Materialburl (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm (?)
Mark "12" zilvergehalte (ingeslagen, filtrand)
Acquisition
Year 2003
Provenance Antwerpen, Kunstveilingen Bernaerts, lot 419
Oudenaarde, particulier bezit, <1990-2003
Comments
Voor het verschijnen van het artikel Schwäbisch oder nicht (2020) werd deze pijpenkop op 1755-1790 gedateerd.
Literature
Don Duco, Schwäbisch oder nicht. Amsterdam, 2020. afb 1. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
De Rijp, Museum In 't Houten Huis, tentoonstelling "In rook vervlogen, vier eeuwen tabaksgebruik", 6 augustus - 19 november 2006.

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