Museum number:

APM 20.770

Subcollection:

smokers' utensils

Title:

pipe cover

Keyword:

hunter with deer and dog

Description:

Pipe cap made of silver with a drum-shaped lid with a flat top, serrated band as a clamp around the pipe bowl, silver chain with a locking ring. Drum sawn around and engraved a resting hunter on the far left with a deer and a dog separated by plants, on the lid a hare and a dog with plants in between. Two re-inspection silvermarks "ZII".

Date:

Period 1770 - 1820


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight1.42 in (3.6 cm)
Diameter0.94 in (2.4 cm)
Weight13 gram
Other dimensions borgketting lang: 10 cm
Characteristics
Materialsilver (metal)
Techniquesawn, soldered
Colourwhite
Traces of use slijtage
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Mark "ZII" (herkeur) (ingeslagen, dekselrand, filtrand)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 12 januari 1964-2011, nr 367
Middelstum, collectie G.A. Brongers, -1963
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Zilveren gebruiksvoorwerpen bij het roken en snuiven. Amsterdam, 1987. p 239, afb 74 (rechts). Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Ongemerkt, Holland, ca. 1800. H 35, diam. deksel 18, diam. montuur 25.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch Museum, vitrine 4, 1964-1974.
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping.

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