Museum number:

APM 19.556

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

openwork flutes

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with Turkish shape bowl after kalmash with hexagonal bowl and slightly protruding rim round the bowl opening, weighted spherical base held by five openwork flutes, the ascending stem with an ornament at the bottom of the bowl, the ornaments end in a curl at the bottom of the stem. Smooth wood finish. Bowl internal sheet iron covered with a white substance. Stem stamped on the right with mark "ML ULM". Original mounting with silver flap lid with flutes and crowned by a ball, silver stub ring with small locking eye. Lid internal label with handwritten collection number "132".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1850


Dimensions:

BowlHeight4.61 in (11.7 cm)
Width2.24 in (5.7 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Turkish shape
Materialburl (wood)
Techniquemilled
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm
MakerMartin Leibinger
Mark "ML ULM" (ingeslagen, steel re.)
"13", "GH" (ingeslagen, dekselring)
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan
München, Ursula Nusser Auktionshaus, najaar 2008
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008
Comments
Buitengewoon sierlijk product van grote luxe en met een sterk contrast tot de standaardmodellen uit die periode.

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