Museum number:
APM 20.315 |
Subcollection:
meerschuim pijpen |
Title:
tabakspijp |
Keyword:
shepherd and shepherdess, Frederick the great on horseback |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of meerschaum with kalmash bowl, round bottom and upgoing stem with stub, a bridge from the stem end to the bowl. Bowl front embossed the courtship of a shepherd and a woman, surrounded by trees and bushes in which all kinds of animals such as two deer, a hare, dog, on the left a standing hunter who shoots at a bird, bowl base a rocaille with foam top, filled with roses, stem along flat lobes with a groove held together by a surrounding band with rolling parts, hemmed with a border of accanthus leaves. Original mounting with silver bowl rim in which a drum-shaped lid is clamped, lid topped by a prancing horse on which Frederik the Great, locking chain to the cuff mounting with a curved plate with pearl fillet hemmed and secured with an open-cut edge with garlands. Silver marks on lid edge and stub mounting. |
Date:
Year | 1781 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 16,3 cm |
Bowl | Height | 11,7 cm |
Width | 6,3 cm | |
Stem | Length | 11 cm |
Weight | 324 gram |
Pipe type | manchetpijp |
Pipe shape | kalmas |
Material | meerschuim (blok-) (steen) |
Technique | gesneden |
Colour | geelbruin |
Other materials | zilver (metaal) |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Contintent | Europa |
Region International | Midden-Europa |
Country | Slowakije |
City | Bratislava |
Contintent | Europa |
Region International | Midden-Europa |
Country | Slowakije |
City | Bratislava |
Maker #1 | Johannes Christofourus Stieger (zilversmid) |
Mark | ICS in bladmotief (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat) keurmerk Bratislava (ingeslagen, dekselring, steelplaat) |
Year | 2010 |
Provenance | Londen, veilinghuis Christie's, lot 665 |
Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1975-2008 |
Zilversmid merkt met "ICS", werkzaam in Pozsony, volgens Christie's uit 1771. De datering van deze pijp is nogal omstreden. De vroegste vermelding noemt 1721. |
Dr. Sabine Fellner (Sabine Fellner) et al., Die lasterhafte Panazee; 500 Jahre Tabakkultur in Europa. Wenen, 1992. p 147, cat III/67a. Dit exemplaar (Beschreven als Oostenrijk, 1721). |
Don Duco, Aanwinsten: Drie meerschuimpijpen uit de Trevor Barton collectie. AmsterdamNieuwsbrief Pijpenkabinet, 7/14, 2010. Afbeelding en bespreking van dit exemplaar. |
Wenen, Österreichisches Tabakmuseum, tentoonstelling "Die lasterhafte Panazee", 11 juni 1992 - 4 oktober 1992. |
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