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:

GeneralHeight1.38 in (3.5 cm)
Width1.06 in (2.7 cm)
Length3.5 in (8.9 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialpock (hackia)? (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourbrownish
Finish tinmontage, tinnen nagels
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalNorth Holland
TownHoorn (?)
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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