Museum number:

APM 22.647

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

lid with seven gun barrels and cannon

Description:

Tobacco pipe of meerschaum with bag shaped bowl with flattened sides, round bottom and rising stem widening to the end. Undecorated. Mounted with a silver valve cover consisting of a drum form of which seven cannon barrels protrude, on the lid a complete cannon with a stack of cannon balls on the right and a rolled-up wick on the left side. Silver stem plate with octagonal stem holder on which a knotted rope with tube with bonnet to keep the cannon barrels clean.

Date:

Period 1805 - 1820


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.21 in (10.7 cm)
BowlHeight2.99 in (7.6 cm)
Width1.97 in (5 cm)
StemLength4.92 in (12.5 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape bag shape
Materialmeerschaum (block) (stone)
Techniqueturned (on a lathe)
Colouryellow-brown
Other materialssilver (metal)
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryFrance
Mark zwaan met streepjes (ingeslagen, affuit, manchetmontage)
Acquisition
Year 2017
Comments
Fransen spreken van een pipe du maréchal.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 5, v.a. december 2017.

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