Museum number:

APM 22.221

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

carving, bone inlays

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with a high pentagonal bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem parallel to the bowl, the space between the bowl and stem left solid. Bowl and stem carving of lines between which standing lines, under the filt a stylized poppy shape on a stem that ends in a geometric shape around the stub, under the stem attachment a hole for a locking cord, between shell and stem cut a kind of sun wheel or spoked wheel, the bowl opening an iron protection plate, folded over at the front with a smooth triangular field. Inlay of circles of bone on bowl and stem.

Date:

Period 1800 - 1880


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight2.95 in (7.5 cm)
BowlHeight3.03 in (7.7 cm)
Width1.77 in (4.5 cm)
StemLength0 in (0 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape geometric
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialsiron (metal), animal bone (animal material)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalEastern Europe
Acquisition
Year 2015

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