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:

GeneralHeight6.42 in (16.3 cm)
BowlHeight4.61 in (11.7 cm)
Width2.48 in (6.3 cm)
StemLength4.33 in (11 cm)
Weight324 gram
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Kalmasch
Materialblock meerschaum (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colouryellow-brown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountrySlovakia
TownBratislava
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountrySlovakia
TownBratislava
Maker #1Johannes Christofourus Stieger (silversmith )
Mark ICS in bladmotief (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat)
keurmerk Bratislava (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat)
Acquisition
Year 2010
Provenance Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 665
Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1975-2008
Comments
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.
Literature
Dr. 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.
Exhibition
Wenen, Ă–sterreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die lasterhafte Panazee", 11 juni 1992 - 4 oktober 1992.

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