Museum number:

APM 21.053

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

man head with hat

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with figural bowl, round underside without heel and rising stem without stub. Bowl head of a man with a small mustache and goatee, tonsure on the back of the head, a hemispherical hat with a curved tip and three whimsical curled edges, secured with a silver chain, a simple knotted scarf with a bow on the front. Eyes with glass inlaid, the teeth mother-of-pearl. Bowl internally covered with sheet iron. Stem end silver manchette with stem holder and locking ring.

Date:

Period 1770 - 1820


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.06 in (10.3 cm)
BowlHeight2.44 in (6.2 cm)
Width1.65 in (4.2 cm)
StemLength2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialsmother of pearl (organic material), silver (metal), glass (inorganic material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountrySwitzerland (?)
Acquisition
Year 2012
Provenance Brussel, Patrick Crowyn, antiquair
Brussel, particulier bezit, <2000-2012
Literature
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Fantasieportret man met driekante hoed. Dit exemplaar.

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