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:

BowlHeight5.24 in (13.3 cm)
Width1.77 in (4.5 cm)
StemLength3.54 in (9 cm)
Length total11.02 in (28 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Ulm shape
Materialburl (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm
Mark " IW" (zilvermerk) (ingeslagen, dekselring)
"AK" (zilvermerk) (ingeslagen, borgbandje)
12 (gehaltemerk)(ingeslagen, borgbandje)
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan
Duitsland, particulier bezit, <1995-2008
Literature
Don Duco, Ulmer Kloben, een Schwäbische vinding. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 14. Dit exemplaar.

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