Museum number:
APM 19.734 |
Subcollection:
wooden pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
galleon with cannons |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with a figural bowl, the stem incorporated in the object. Bowl shaped like a galleon with a three-part deck on which carve cut decoration, halfway with a pewter mounting in which deepens a square bowl with beveled corners, the upper edge engraved owners marks (IH?) and twice the silhouette of a simple boat, on both sides of the ship the sections of the floors with bands visible including the artillery gates with nine pewter nails accentuated, the bow pointed, three nails in the mirror and a thin hole for a pipe stem made of metal (the rest still in the hole). |
Date:
Period | 1620 - 1630 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 1.38 in (3.5 cm) |
Width | 1.06 in (2.7 cm) | |
Length | 3.5 in (8.9 cm) |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | figural |
Material | pock (hackia)? (wood) |
Technique | carved |
Colour | brownish |
Finish | tinmontage, tinnen nagels |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | The Netherlands |
Region national | North Holland |
Town | Hoorn (?) |
Acquisition
Year | 2009 |
Provenance | Hoorn, collectie Wil Snip, 1998-2008 |
Literature
Don Duco, Twee vroege tabakspijpen in de vorm van een schip. Amsterdam, 2009. afb 1a-g. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
Hoorn, Westfries museum, afdeling archeologie, permanente presentatie, 1999-2009. Collectienummer 13360. |
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