Museum number:
| APM 20.675 |
Subcollection:
| meerschaum pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| medallions with man on horseback, ornamental work |
Description:
Tobacco pipe in meerschaum with constricted cylindrical bowl, accentuated bowl opening, weighted base with lenticular underside and ascending stem widening to cuff, a kind of rat tail along the underside of the bowl base. Bowl around three circular medallions in which a horseman with sword or pistol goes to the right, ornamental tessellation with beads in turquoise set along the base, stem bottom on a dotted deepened fond vine leaves with flowers. Originally worked silver valve cover with stones and flower-shaped button, silver cuff ring with stem plate and stem holder and bail eye, end engraved "MARIENBAD IM JAHRE 834". Silver bowl ring stamped silver hallmarks. |
Date:
| Year | 1834 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 4.33 in (11 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 3.11 in (7.9 cm) |
| Width | 2.01 in (5.1 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.76 in (7 cm) |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | fantasy |
| Material | meerschaum (block) (stone) |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | ivory white |
| Other materials | glass beads (inorganic material), silver (metal), ornamental stone (stone) |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Central Europe |
| Country | Austria |
| Region national | Vienna (province) |
| Town | Vienna (?) |
| Mark | gehaltemerk + jaarcijfer (ingeslagen, dekselring) IR ? (makersmerk, ingeslagen, dekselring) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1966-2011, nr 414 |
| Wenen, antiekhandelaar, 1966 | |
| Hermanuv Mestec, <1966 |
| Sigarenmerk Cogétama brengt c. 1970 een serie van 24 sigarenbanden met diverse pijpen, deze pijpenkop is er één van. |
| Georg Alfred Brongers (Georg Alfred Brongers), Van Gouwenaar tot bruyère pijp. Amerongen, 1978. p 147. Dit exemplaar (links onder). |
| Parijs, Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, tentoonstelling "Les 50 pipes les plus extraordinaires de la célèbre collection Niemeyer", 1 oktober - 20 november 1966. |
| Saint-Claude, tentoonstelling "La Pipe de Saint-Claude", 4 juli 1970 - 1 oktober 1970. |
| Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping. |
| Zug (Zwitserland), tentoonstelling "Das Niemeyer Tabak Museum", 30 augustus 1994 - 3 november 1994. |
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