Museum number:

APM 22.802

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

large coat of arms with seven helmets

Description:

Tobacco pipe in meerschaum with high Hungarian bowl, disc-shaped outstanding bowl opening, flat bottom and ascending stem widening into a disc-shaped stub. Bowl front hand-carved in relief with a large coat of arms with six quarters and a shield crowned with seven helmets with different helmet signs against a cover above which is a crown, lions standing as shield holders with turned heads and a staff with a vane in the claws. Stem engraved ornamental decoration on both sides. Original mounting with silver valve lid with wide bowl rim with relief and drum-shaped lid with leafy branches, year "1839" engraved on the lens-shaped drum, silver stub ring with small locking eye. Ring bowl opening stamped silver marks with hallmark and year 1839 and maker's mark IN.

Date:

Year 1839


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight5.71 in (14.5 cm)
BowlHeight4.76 in (12.1 cm)
Width1.89 in (4.8 cm)
StemLength3.35 in (8.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape cylindrical
Materialmeerschaum (block) (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colourivory white
Other materialssilver (metal)
Finish was
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountryAustria
Region nationalVienna (province)
TownVienna
MakerSydon Noltze
Mark N (ingedrukt, manchet kops)
gehalteteken (ingeslagen, filtring)
IN (ingeslagen, filtring)
Acquisition
Year 2017
Literature
J. Ch. Rhein (Jean-Charles Rhein), L'art de la pipe. Geneva, 1978. kaft en Pl. XV-2. Dit exemplaar.
Bernard Mamy, Eppe Ramazzotti, Pfeifen und Pfeifenraucher; Pfeifendunst und Pfeifenkunst. Geneva, 1982. p 71, afb 2. Dit exemplaar.

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