Museum number:
| APM 20.326 |
Subcollection:
| wooden pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| double-headed eagle with spread wings |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with figural bowl, flat underside and rising stem widening to stub. Bowl seated eagle, wings spread, the lid consists of two heads with long necks, the beaks mounted with silver, a chain attached to each other, the bowl base a kind of pedestal of the two bird legs between which the animal sits on a nest. Bowl internal meerschaum lining. Silver mounting stem with plate and conical stem holder with locking ring. |
Date:
| Period | 1810 - 1840 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 4.13 in (10.5 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 2.87 in (7.3 cm) |
| Width | 2.09 in (5.3 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.95 in (7.5 cm) |
| Weight | 227 gram |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | wood |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | brown |
| Other materials | iron, silver (metal) |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
Acquisition
| Year | 2010 |
| Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 711 |
| Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1970-2008 |
Comments
| Als je de pijp aansteekt komt er rook uit beide snavels. |
Literature
| Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Vogel met twee koppen. Dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
| An Exhibition of Pipe Smoking through the Ages, c. 1975. Dit exemplaar. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2019. |
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