Museum number:

APM 20.770

Subcollection:

tabakscuriosa

Title:

pipe cover

Keyword:

hunter with deer and dog

Description:

Pipe cap made of silver with a drum-shaped lid with a flat top, serrated band as a clamp around the pipe bowl, silver chain with a locking ring. Drum sawn around and engraved a resting hunter on the far left with a deer and a dog separated by plants, on the lid a hare and a dog with plants in between. Two re-inspection silvermarks "ZII".

Date:

Period 1770 - 1820


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3,6 cm
Diameter2,4 cm
Weight13 gram
Other dimensions borgketting lang: 10 cm
Characteristics
Materialzilver (metaal)
Techniquegezaagd, gesoldeerd
Colourblank
Traces of use slijtage
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryNederland
Mark "ZII" (herkeur) (ingeslagen, dekselrand, filtrand)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 12 januari 1964-2011, nr 367
Middelstum, collectie G.A. Brongers, -1963
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Zilveren gebruiksvoorwerpen bij het roken en snuiven. Amsterdam, 1987. p 239, afb 74 (rechts). Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Ongemerkt, Holland, ca. 1800. H 35, diam. deksel 18, diam. montuur 25.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch Museum, vitrine 4, 1964-1974.
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping.

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