Smoking pipe

Pipes are commonly made from briar, heather, corncob, meerschaum, clay, cherry, glass, porcelain, ebonite and acrylic.

During the 17th century, pipe smoking became a new trend among the Dutch young, in specific the upper and middle class students.

[1] These students copied the Spanish sailors and soldiers in the area by joining them in participation of pipe smoking.

For example, in Willem Buytewech’s painting The Merry Company (circa 1620–1622), there are three young men and a woman sitting around a table with a tobacco pipe lying in the middle.

[1] Additionally, in artist Adriaen Brouwer’s portrait The Smokers (1636), he too was interested in the pipe.