Museum number:
| APM 16.567 |
Subcollection:
| pipes various materials |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| agate with silver mounting |
Description:
|
Tobacco pipe made in agate with high four-sided bowl, flat bottom and short ascending four-sided stem. Mounting in silver with square flap lid topped with square button, square cuff mounting with round stem retainer with locking eye, debossed silver mark V in contour. Original black horn stem with octagonal center and space for a pipe cleaner, curved flattened end. Lock chain with silver pipe cleaner. |
Date:
| Period | 1820 - 1850 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 3.31 in (8.4 cm) |
| Width | 0.98 in (2.5 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.97 in (5 cm) |
| Length total | 10.04 in (25.5 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | four sided |
| Material | agate (stone) |
| Technique | cut |
| Colour | pink |
| Other materials | silver (metal), buffalo horn (animal material) |
| Finish | gemonteerd |
| Traces of use | gerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Rhineland Palatinate |
| Town | Idar-Oberstein (?) |
| Mark | V in contour (ingeslagen, deksel) |
Acquisition
| Year | 2002 |
| Provenance | Bristol, The Bristol Auction Rooms, lot 704 |
| Bristol, W.D. & H.O. Wills pipe collection, <1920-2002 |
Exhibition
| Presentatie W.D. & H.O. Wills Hartcliffe Factory, Bristol, 1974-1990. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 2002-2013. |
| Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013. |
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