Museum number:
APM 20.315 |
Subcollection:
meerschaum pipes |
Title:
tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
shepherd and shepherdess, Frederick the great on horseback |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of meerschaum with kalmash bowl, round bottom and upgoing stem with stub, a bridge from the stem end to the bowl. Bowl front embossed the courtship of a shepherd and a woman, surrounded by trees and bushes in which all kinds of animals such as two deer, a hare, dog, on the left a standing hunter who shoots at a bird, bowl base a rocaille with foam top, filled with roses, stem along flat lobes with a groove held together by a surrounding band with rolling parts, hemmed with a border of accanthus leaves. Original mounting with silver bowl rim in which a drum-shaped lid is clamped, lid topped by a prancing horse on which Frederik the Great, locking chain to the cuff mounting with a curved plate with pearl fillet hemmed and secured with an open-cut edge with garlands. Silver marks on lid edge and stub mounting. |
Date:
Year | 1781 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 6.42 in (16.3 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 4.61 in (11.7 cm) |
Width | 2.48 in (6.3 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 4.33 in (11 cm) |
Weight | 324 gram |
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | Kalmasch |
Material | meerschaum (block) (stone) |
Technique | carved |
Colour | yellow-brown |
Other materials | silver (metal) |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Central Europe |
Country | Slovakia |
Town | Bratislava |
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Central Europe |
Country | Slovakia |
Town | Bratislava |
Maker #1 | Johannes Christofourus Stieger (silversmith ) |
Mark | ICS in bladmotief (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat) keurmerk Bratislava (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat) |
Year | 2010 |
Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 665 |
Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1975-2008 |
Zilversmid merkt met "ICS", werkzaam in Pozsony, volgens Christie's uit 1771. De datering van deze pijp is nogal omstreden. De vroegste vermelding noemt 1721. |
Dr. Sabine Fellner (Sabine Fellner) et al., Die lasterhafte Panazee; 500 Jahre Tabakkultur in Europa. Vienna, 1992. p 147, cat III/67a. Dit exemplaar (Beschreven als Oostenrijk, 1721). |
Don Duco, Aanwinsten: Drie meerschuimpijpen uit de Trevor Barton collectie. AmsterdamNieuwsbrief Pijpenkabinet, 7/14, 2010. Afbeelding en bespreking van dit exemplaar. |
Wenen, Ă–sterreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die lasterhafte Panazee", 11 juni 1992 - 4 oktober 1992. |
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