Museum number:

APM 20.644

Subcollection:

pipes various materials

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

three horsemen

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of coquia nut with oval-shaped bowl placed on a U-shaped base with ascending stem without cuff shape. Bowl around a frieze on which three horsemen go to the left, between trees and a few standing or seated men, in the background towers, walls and house facades, dome-shaped screw lid with a central crown of a man's head with a peaked cap. Original blackwood stem with ivory discs terminating in a curved buffalo horn end mount with three twisted ivory discs capped with a thin six-node mouthpiece.

Date:

Period 1820 - 1850


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight12.99 in (33 cm)
BowlHeight2.48 in (6.3 cm)
Width1.57 in (4 cm)
StemLength2.17 in (5.5 cm)
Length total12.6 in (32 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape oval shape
Materialcoquilla nut (organic material)
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialsivory, buffalo horn (animal material), wood
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance (?)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, c. 1969-2011, nr DD386
Amsterdam, antiekhandel. c. 1969
Literature
Gustav Casparek et al., Von der Leidenschaft des Pfeifenrauchers. Bielefeld, 1984. p 148. Dit exemplaar (zonder steel).
Ralph Plum, ed., La passion de la pipe, fumée et fumeurs. Bielefeld, 1984. p 148. Dit exemplaar (zonder steel).
Exhibition
Saint-Claude, tentoonstelling "Confrérie des Maîtres-Pipiers de Saint-Claude", mei - september 1972.
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1980-2010, verdieping.

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