Museum number:

APM 22.225

Subcollection:

smokers' utensils

Title:

pipe case

Keyword:

head man with cap

Description:

Pipe case of palm wood in the shape of a clay pipe with an oval-shaped figural pipe bowl, explicit thumb rest and straight openwork stem. Bowl part flips open with a flap and has the shape of a man's head with cap with flap, the pupils in ivory, a kind of button or thumb rest in swirling carving on the lid, handle with two zones of open loops, handle end of the legs ring. Bowl part top a circular brass plate hinge.

Date:

Period 1800 - 1840


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Length12.6 in (32 cm)
Characteristics
Materialboxwood (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourdark brown
Other materialsivory (animal material), brass (metal)
Traces of use lichte gebruiksslijtage
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryBelgium
Region nationalFlanders
Acquisition
Year 2015

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