Museum number:
| APM 20.644 |
Subcollection:
| pijpen overige materialen |
Title:
| tabakspijp |
Keyword:
| three horsemen |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of coquia nut with oval-shaped bowl placed on a U-shaped base with ascending stem without cuff shape. Bowl around a frieze on which three horsemen go to the left, between trees and a few standing or seated men, in the background towers, walls and house facades, dome-shaped screw lid with a central crown of a man's head with a peaked cap. Original blackwood stem with ivory discs terminating in a curved buffalo horn end mount with three twisted ivory discs capped with a thin six-node mouthpiece. |
Date:
| Period | 1820 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 33 cm |
| Bowl | Height | 6,3 cm |
| Width | 4 cm | |
| Stem | Length | 5,5 cm |
| Length total | 32 cm |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | insteekpijp |
| Pipe shape | ovaalvorm |
| Material | coquillanoot (organisch materiaal) |
| Technique | gesneden |
| Colour | bruin |
| Other materials | ivoor, buffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), hout |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | Frankrijk (?) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2011 |
| Provenance | Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, c. 1969-2011, nr DD386 |
| Amsterdam, antiekhandel. c. 1969 |
Literature
| Gustav Casparek et al., Von der Leidenschaft des Pfeifenrauchers. Bielefeld, 1984. p 148. Dit exemplaar (zonder steel). |
| Ralph Plum, ed., La passion de la pipe, fumée et fumeurs. Bielefeld, 1984. p 148. Dit exemplaar (zonder steel). |
Exhibition
| Saint-Claude, tentoonstelling "Confrérie des Maîtres-Pipiers de Saint-Claude", mei - september 1972. |
| Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1980-2010, verdieping. |
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