Museum number:

APM 22.396

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

mother-of-pearl inlay

Description:

Wooden tobacco pipe with Kalmas bowl, without heel and ascending stem with stub. Bowl bottom in relief shell motif with seven flutes. Bowl and stem meticulously inlaid with pieces of mother-of-pearl with a double-headed eagle in front of the chest three times in a heart shape with a crowned coat of arms, the same coat of arms twice on both sides. Original mounting with silver valve cover with octagonal tip shape and Eastern European retaining spring, silver stub ring with knurled edge and locking eye. Original accompanying stem of black buffalo horn with turning and inlay of silver nails, the center piece hexagonal with mother-of-pearl panels, some with engraving. Silver safety chain.

Date:

Period 1840 - 1850


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.84 in (12.3 cm)
BowlHeight3.11 in (7.9 cm)
Width1.85 in (4.7 cm)
StemLength2.36 in (6 cm)
Length total11.81 in (30 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Kalmasch
Materialwood
Techniqueturned (on a lathe)
Colourbrown
Other materialsmother of pearl (organic material), silver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material)
Finish paarlemoer inlegwerk
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalEastern Europe
CountryHungary
Mark zilvermerken (ingeslagen dekselrand)
Acquisition
Year 2016
Comments
Vgl. APM 20.636 vergelijkbaar stuk maar met een duidelijke hoofdvoorstelling en meer hout zichtbaar.
Vergelijkbaar inlegwerk is ook in Illyria (het huidige Albanië) gemaakt.
Literature
Benedict Goes, Tabakspijpen, kunstwerkjes in hout. ZandvoortMétier, 3/11. p 33. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Aanwinsten 2016", 2 januari - 12 maart 2017, verlengd tot 30 juni 2017.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2019.

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