Museum number:

APM 15.673

Subcollection:

pijpen overige materialen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

elephant head with tusks

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of pot fish tooth with figural bowl placed on a stem of buffalo horn. Bowl elephant head with tusks and ears along the bowl opening, accents in the carving with black colorized. Original buffalo horn stem with different knots and horn disc followed by a flexible part and mouthpiece wit button. Remains of a locking cord with a culotte round the stem.

Date:

Period 1830 - 1880


Dimensions:

BowlHeight10,1 cm
Width4,7 cm
StemLength7,5 cm
Length total32 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialtand (dierlijk materiaal)
Techniquegesneden
Colourgeelwit
Other materialsbuffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa (?)
Acquisition
Year 1999
Provenance Hertsberge, collectie Hugo Perquy, c. 1979-1999
Londen, antiekhandel, c. 1979
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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