Museum number:

APM 16.716

Subcollection:

houten pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

mirror monogram in cartouche

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with a cylindrical constricted Kalmas bowl with slightly outstanding bowl opening, weighted underside, round without heel and upgoing widening stem into a stub. Bowl front embossed in crowned circular cartouche mirror monogram of the letters "JA", flanked by palm branches, hemmed all around with curled leaves in symmetry that extend to the stem end. Stem undecorated. Original assembly with silver valve cover with open-cut valve with knob in a snout band. Stem end assembly made of silver with stem holder and locking ring. Both mountings are fixed with a sawn edge of stylized leaf motifs and drilled holes.

Date:

Period 1740 - 1765


Dimensions:

BowlHeight7,8 cm
Width3,9 cm
StemLength7 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape kalmas
Materialhout
Techniquegesneden
Colourbruin
Other materialszilver (metaal)
Finish gemonteerd
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalBaden-Württemberg
CityUlm (?)
Acquisition
Year 2002
Provenance Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 765
Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002
Literature
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. hoofdstuk: Houten pijpenkop met spiegelmonogram. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Houten pijpenkop met spiegelmonogram. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Presentatie W.D. & H.O. Wills Hartcliffe Factory, Bristol, 1974-1990.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 2002-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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