Museum number:
APM 19.429 |
Subcollection:
wooden pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
bakery |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm shape with cylindrical bowl on disc-shaped flattened base and upright stem with stub. Bowl on the front carved in a recumbent oval the initials "AKB", bowl base on the left a baker shoving loaves of bread into the oven and a woman leaving the bakery with a basket on her head, bowl on the right three men at a table shaping loaves, a second room where a man is working on a dough tray, the representations surrounded by some leaf work. Mounted with heavy silver valve cover with flattened openwork clamping spring. Bowl lined internally with sheet iron. Original mounting with buffalo horn stem with long straight hexagonal piece clad in silver, a lion mask head with ring in the mouth at the top, curved horn mouthpiece with button bite. Silver safety chain with strap with hallmarks "12" and "AK". |
Date:
Period | 1830 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 5.24 in (13.3 cm) |
Width | 1.77 in (4.5 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 3.54 in (9 cm) |
Length total | 11.02 in (28 cm) |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | Ulm shape |
Material | burl (wood) |
Technique | carved |
Colour | brown |
Other materials | silver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material) |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Baden-Wurttemberg |
Town | Ulm |
Mark | " IW" (zilvermerk) (ingeslagen, dekselring) "AK" (zilvermerk) (ingeslagen, borgbandje) 12 (gehaltemerk)(ingeslagen, borgbandje) |
Year | 2008 |
Provenance | 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan |
Duitsland, particulier bezit, <1995-2008 |
Don Duco, Ulmer Kloben, een Schwäbische vinding. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 14. Dit exemplaar. |
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