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:

GeneralHeight33 cm
BowlHeight6,3 cm
Width4 cm
StemLength5,5 cm
Length total32 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape ovaalvorm
Materialcoquillanoot (organisch materiaal)
Techniquegesneden
Colourbruin
Other materialsivoor, buffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal), hout
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryFrankrijk (?)
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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