590 - Viennese coffee house pipe with hand-painted porcelain bowl and gilt scrolls, early 20th century

Viennese coffee house pipe with hand-painted porcelain bowl and gilt scrolls, early 20th century Porcelain, wood and horn, Viennese coffee house pipe, long composite pipe, porcelain bowl with attached, scrolled reservoir, on the front a hand-painted intertwined monogram in black with pink and greenish shading, surrounded by gilt scrolls, gilt rim at the bowl mouth, reservoir with gold and black lines, ebonised turned wooden stem with horn parts, tulip-shaped connecting piece, black articulated and angled mouthpiece, green cord with wooden beads. Good condition commensurate with age, mouthpiece partly torn. L. 46.5 cm. The Viennese coffee house pipe is one of the long composite pipes made up of bowl, stem and mouthpiece, which in the 19th century were part of everyday life in Viennese coffee houses. There the house provided guests with the pipe, only the tobacco was charged, and the horn mouthpiece was cleaned after use. Such pipes were made in workshops of the Westerwald, which supplied the Austro-Hungarian market well into the 20th century. Delicate scrolls, flowers and vases were popular decorations of these smoking pipes. Condensate and saliva collect in the reservoir (Abguss, also called Saftsack).