Museum number:
APM 19.857 |
Subcollection:
wooden pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
guilloche with silver nails |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm bowl, round bottom and ascending stem ending in stub. Bowl on both sides incised diamond pattern accentuated with diamonds constructed from silver nails, stem same incisions, however regular pattern of nails, on the lower edge and the transition to the bowl a row of larger silver nails. Original mounting with silver valve cover in the shape of a helmet, stem plate and stem holder of silver with locking eye. Original stem with two-sided flattened conical shape similarly guilloche with silver nails and a rim with larger on the stem seams on both sides, curved buffalo horn mouthpiece with button. |
Date:
Period | 1830 - 1860 |
Dimensions:
Bowl | Height | 4.57 in (11.6 cm) |
Width | 1.61 in (4.1 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 2.95 in (7.5 cm) |
Length total | 14.76 in (37.5 cm) |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | Ulm |
Material | wood |
Technique | turned (on a lathe) |
Colour | dark brown |
Other materials | silver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material) |
Finish | geguillocheerd |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Germany |
Region national | Baden-Wurttemberg |
Town | Ulm (?) |
Year | 2009 |
Provenance | Riom, veilinghuis Piasa, lot 120 |
Parijs, collectie Musée de la Seita, 1992-2009, coll. nr 1260 | |
Parijs, vente publique Drouot-Richelieu, koop 14-05-1992 |
Don Duco, Ulmer Kloben, een Schwäbische vinding. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 9. Dit exemplaar. |
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