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:

GeneralHeight4.33 in (11 cm)
BowlHeight3.11 in (7.9 cm)
Width2.01 in (5.1 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape fantasy
Materialblock meerschaum (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colourivory white
Other materialsglass beads (inorganic material), silver (metal), ornamental stone (stone)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountryAustria
Region nationalVienna (province)
TownVienna (?)
Mark gehaltemerk + jaarcijfer (ingeslagen, dekselring)
IR ? (makersmerk, ingeslagen, dekselring)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1966-2011, nr 414
Wenen, antiekhandelaar, 1966
Hermanuv Mestec, <1966
Comments
Sigarenmerk Cogétama brengt c. 1970 een serie van 24 sigarenbanden met diverse pijpen, deze pijpenkop is er één van.
Literature
Georg Alfred Brongers, Van Gouwenaar tot bruyère pijp. Amerongen, 1978. p 147. Dit exemplaar (links onder).
Exhibition
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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