Museum number:

APM 17.757

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

head turk with mustache and beard

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with beaker-shaped figural bowl, without heel and curved ascending stem slightly widening towards the end. Bowl head of a Turk type with thin moustache and short beard with locks, back of head shell motif. Stem granulated with elongated leaf motif along the bottom and top edge. Mounting with silver valve cover with narrow twisted rim and flat top on which a six-pointed star, radial rays with sawn edge for air supply, crescent moon above simple clamping spring. Stem end silver stub plate with stem holder with locking eye. Original dark buffalo horn stem with thickened middle part with flutes, detached at the top, disc shape with sling edge and flattened bite. Original silver locking chain.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1855


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.87 in (7.3 cm)
Width1.93 in (4.9 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Length total11.61 in (29.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourdark brown
Other materialssilver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalThuringia
TownRuhla (?)
Acquisition
Year 2005
Provenance Brussel, antiekwinkel rue Rollebeek
Brussel, particulier bezit, <1990-2001
Literature
Don Duco, Aanwinsten voor het Pijpenkabinet. AmsterdamNieuwsbrief Pijpenkabinet, 3/4, 2006. afb 2. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
De Rijp, Museum In 't Houten Huis, tentoonstelling "In rook vervlogen, vier eeuwen tabaksgebruik", 6 augustus - 19 november 2006. Ook op affiche afbebeeld.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 2007-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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