Museum number:
| APM 20.636 |
Subcollection:
| wooden pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| flutes, fine mother-of-pearl inlay |
Description:
Wooden tobacco pipe with trumpet-shaped bowl on a weighted base, round bottom and ascending stem with stub. Bowl bottom in relief seven flutes. Bowl and stem inlaid with small pieces of mother-of-pearl in geometric patterns, bowl front two standing warriors holding a coat of arms with helmet, bowl sides a stylized double-headed eagle, stem two double-headed eagles on both sides. Bowl lined internally with sheet iron. Original mounting with helmet-shaped silver lid with four plumes with a red cut stone in the center, the side of the lid as a visor holder, also a red stone in the mount. Stub plate with stem holder and small silver eyelet. |
Date:
| Period | 1835 - 1855 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 4.61 in (11.7 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 2.76 in (7 cm) |
| Width | 1.81 in (4.6 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 2.76 in (7 cm) |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | bag shape |
| Material | wood |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | brown |
| Other materials | mother of pearl (organic material), silver, iron (metal) |
| Finish | inlegwerk, gemonteerd |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Eastern Europe |
| Country | Hungary (?) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, <1975-2011, nr AA495 |
| Rotterdam-Overschie, collectie A. Kluchert |
| Vgl. APM 22.396 vergelijkbaar voorwerp maar verfijnder van inlegwerk. Sigarenmerk Cogétama brengt c. 1970 een serie van 24 sigarenbanden met diverse pijpen, deze pijpenkop is er één van. |
| Parijs, Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, tentoonstelling "Les 50 pipes les plus extraordinaires de la célèbre collection Niemeyer", 1 oktober - 20 november 1966. |
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