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:
| General | Height | 5.71 in (14.5 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 4.76 in (12.1 cm) |
| Width | 1.89 in (4.8 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 3.35 in (8.5 cm) |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | cylindrical |
| Material | meerschaum (block) (stone) |
| Technique | carved |
| Colour | ivory white |
| Other materials | silver (metal) |
| Finish | was |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Central Europe |
| Country | Austria |
| Region national | Vienna (province) |
| Town | Vienna |
| Maker | Sydon Noltze |
| Mark | N (ingedrukt, manchet kops) gehalteteken (ingeslagen, filtring) IN (ingeslagen, filtring) |
| Year | 2017 |
| 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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