Museum number:

APM 20.161

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

tuberous bowl, silver motifs

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with an irregular round shape without markings, attached stem holder made of silver. Bowl piece of driftwood with tuber shape with circular veins, set all around with embossed silver motifs including two sitting dogs, three clover, lily shape, culotte, leaf, round face and more. Original silver lid secured with three rods ending in a butterfly with spread wings and two shields, the shields engraved with the symbols for faith, hope and love on the left and a blooming flower on the right. Flap lid with a high open edge with garlands in the openings, the lid with six twisted grunts and crowned with a button. Lid edge debossed silver marks crowned portrait, "GMS" and "Y.L", stem holder debossed mark "Y.L". Originally mounted with greenish buffalo horn button stem with black disc and button bite.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1850


Dimensions:

GeneralLength9.84 in (25 cm)
BowlHeight3.39 in (8.6 cm)
Width2.24 in (5.7 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Length total7.68 in (19.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape bulbous
Materialwood
Techniquehand-formed
Colourbrown
Other materialssilver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany (?)
Mark portret, "GMS" en "Y.L" (ingeslagen, dekselrand)
Acquisition
Year 2010
Provenance 's-Graveland, Arjan de Haan
München, Ursula Nusser Auktionshaus, najaar 2008
Wittelsbach, kroonprins Rupprecht van Beieren (1869-1955) en erven, 2008

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