Museum number:

APM 19.536

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

high bowl with neo-gothic motifs

Description:

Tobacco pipe in meerschaum with a high Hungarian bowl, lenticular bottom without heel and ascending stem with disc-shaped stub. Bowl around four panels with Gothic window motif filled with palmette at the bottom, fantasy tracery above. Original mounting with silver lid, the four lips of the lid ring close in the undecorated spandrels that make the arched windows, lid itself with Byzantine crown shape on which three balls and knob with fluted edge. Two silver hallmarks on lid ring. Silver stub ring with locking eye. Lid internal label with handwritten collection number "8".

Date:

Period 1838 - 1839


Dimensions:

BowlHeight6.89 in (17.5 cm)
Width18.5 in (47 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Hungarian
Materialmeerschaum (block) (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colourivory white
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountryAustria
Region nationalVienna (province)
TownVienna
Mark gehaltemerk + jaarcijfer 1838/9 (ingeslagen, dekselring)
IG (makermerk, ingeslagen, dekselring)
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Sotheby's, lot 61
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
Eerste kwaliteit meerschuim met een maximale porositeit en zeer licht van gewicht en tamelijk dunwandig. Representatief voor de wonderlijke hoge ketels van die periode.
Literature
Don Duco, Fabels en feiten over de meerschuim pijp. Amsterdam, 2009. afb 86. Dit exemplaar.

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