Museum number:

APM 19.597

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

coat of arms with helmet, hunting dogs with game

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm-shaped bowl, round underside and rising stem widening to stub. Bowl front carved armorial motif of shield with slanting bar with top right sword, bottom left arrow, above which helmet with flight and helmet sign torso of a man with raised sword. Stem around the edges volute-shaped twigs on which a dog hunting a pig on the left and a dog hunting a deer on the right. Original mounting with silver valve cover with low drum and open-cut cover, simple closing spring, flat stub plate without stem holder but with locking ring, both mounts fixed with serrated leaves.

Date:

Period 1760 - 1800


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.23 in (8.2 cm)
Width1.34 in (3.4 cm)
StemLength2.36 in (6 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Ulm shape
Materialwood
Techniquemilled, carved
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm
Acquisition
Year 2009
Provenance New York, antiekhandel
Chicago, collectie Frederick Baylander, <1990-2009
Literature
Don Duco, Ulmer Kloben, een Schwäbische vinding. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 10. Dit exemplaar.

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