Museum number:
| APM 19.506 |
Subcollection:
| porcelain pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| bust Napoleonic soldier with half-height helmet |
Description:
Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with long sideburns, military helmet with a conical shape with a narrow visor, a protruding feather-shaped plume on the top edge, braided cords and hanging decorations, a braided chin strap, bust with a raised uniform collar. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "III". |
Date:
| Period | 1835 - 1860 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 3.46 in (8.8 cm) |
| Bowl | Height | 2.64 in (6.7 cm) |
| Width | 1.57 in (4 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 1.18 in (3 cm) |
Characteristics
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | porcelain (ceramic) |
| Technique | slip cast |
| Colour | white |
| Finish | glazuur, meerkleuren |
| Traces of use | ongerookt |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | Germany |
| Region national | Thuringia (?) |
| Trade number | 3 |
Acquisition
| Year | 2008 |
| Provenance | Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008 |
| Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000 |
Comments
| Artillerist uit de periode 1808-1812, mogelijk een muzikant uit de keizerlijke garde. |
Exhibition
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2012. |
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