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:
General | Height | 2.95 in (7.5 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 3.03 in (7.7 cm) |
Width | 1.77 in (4.5 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 0 in (0 cm) |
Characteristics
Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
Pipe shape | geometric |
Material | wood |
Technique | carved |
Colour | brown |
Other materials | iron (metal), animal bone (animal material) |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Eastern Europe |
Acquisition
Year | 2015 |
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