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:

GeneralHeight3.46 in (8.8 cm)
BowlHeight2.64 in (6.7 cm)
Width1.57 in (4 cm)
StemLength1.18 in (3 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape figural
Materialporcelain (ceramic)
Techniqueslip cast
Colourwhite
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Region nationalThuringia (?)
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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