Museum number:

APM 15.070

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

cigar pipe

Keyword:

bust William Tell

Description:

Cigar holder made of meerschaum with figural bowl, without heel and up going stem. Bowl bust of a man (Willem Tell?) in three quarter with mustache and beard and romanticized sixteenth century dress in the style of Albrecht Durer, long curly hair over which a leather hood with a floppy pleated hat with large plume, flat collar with a few buttons. Curved amber coloured stem with red rubber protection band around the bite. Original case of wood with brown leather exterior and internal greyish blue velvet and greyish blue silk, gold stamp "B.H. WASMANN JR. (Dutch coat of arms), REGULIERSBREESTRAAT 7, GALERIJ 6 & AMSTEL 8, AMSTERDAM".

Date:

Period 1890 - 1910


Dimensions:

BowlHeight2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Width1.73 in (4.4 cm)
StemLength2.76 in (7 cm)
Length total6.3 in (16 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type insert pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialmeerschaum (block) (stone)
Techniquecarved
Colouryellow-brown
Other materialsamber (stone), leather (animal material), fabric (fabric), wood
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalCentral Europe
CountryAustria
Region nationalVienna (province)
TownVienna (?)
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryThe Netherlands
Region nationalNorth Holland
TownAmsterdam
Maker #1Barend Heinrich Wasmann Jr. (pipe shop)
Acquisition
Year 1997
Provenance Purmerend, W.L. Krijn, <1990-1997
Antwerpen, collectie Hendrik Krijn, c. 1955
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, 1999-2013.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, voorkamer, kabinetkast, v.a. 2013.

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