Museum number:
APM 21.678 |
Subcollection:
houten pijpen |
Title:
tabakspijp |
Keyword:
cover with hunter with dog and shot deer |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of wood with bag-shaped bowl, round bottom and ascending stem ending in a stub. Undecorated. Mounted with a silver valve cover with a seated hunter with a dog next to him on the lenticular valve, a shot deer at his feet, the clamping spring a reclining lion, the air inlet on either side a fish. Stem plate and stem holder in silver, against the plate a standing man with legs spread, arms spread, dressed in eighteenth century costume, maker's mark of cloverleaf with initials "OFH" (FOH) stamped in front. |
Date:
Period | 1830 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
General | Height | 11,4 cm |
Bowl | Height | 8,5 cm |
Width | 5,8 cm | |
Stem | Length | 12 cm |
Characteristics
Pipe type | manchetpijp |
Pipe shape | zakvorm |
Material | warrelhout (hout) |
Technique | gedraaid (draaibank) |
Colour | bruin |
Other materials | zilver (metaal) |
Oher techniques | gesmeed |
Other colours | blank |
Finish | gepolijst |
Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
Contintent | Europa |
Region International | West-Europa |
Country | Duitsland |
Mark | klaverblad + OFH (ingeslagen, steelplaat) |
Acquisition
Year | 2013 |
Provenance | Hofheim-Diedenbergen, collectie Rainer Immensack, 1999-2013 |
Nashville, Museum of Tobacco Art & History, 1982-1998 | |
Letchmore Heath, Trevor Barton sr., <1970-1982 |
Literature
Ben Rapaport (Benjamin Rapaport), A complete guide to collecting Antique Pipes. Exton, PA, 1979. p 103, foto rechts boven. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: A Kalmasch mottled boxwood with silver figural ornamentation of the hunt. |
Ben Rapaport (Benjamin Rapaport), Museum of Tobacco Art & History Guide Book. Nashville, TN, 1996. p 3.30. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Burl-wood pipe bowl. Europe, c. 1830, 4-1/2"H. x 6-1/2"L. This pipe has a silver-plated wind cap decorated with figures of a hunter, dog and stag. |
Don Duco, Object van de maand. Amsterdam, 2001. oktober 2013, nr 149. Beknopte bespreking van dit exemplaar. |
Exhibition
Nashville, Museum of Tobacco Art & History, permanente presentatie, <1990-2000 |
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