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:

BowlHeight4.57 in (11.6 cm)
Width1.61 in (4.1 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Length total14.76 in (37.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Ulm
Materialwood
Techniqueturned (on a lathe)
Colourdark brown
Other materialssilver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Finish geguillocheerd
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalBaden-Wurttemberg
TownUlm (?)
Acquisition
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
Literature
Don Duco, Ulmer Kloben, een Schwäbische vinding. Amsterdam, 2017. afb 9. Dit exemplaar.

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