Museum number:

APM 16.259

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust Napoleonic soldier with long sideburns and high military cap with the Napoleonic eagle on the front between two bands, a round ball on the edge and small visor, bust with high uniform collar and uniform with epaulettes. Polychrome painting, heightened with silver. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

BowlHeight3.27 in (8.3 cm)
Width1.77 in (4.5 cm)
StemLength1.38 in (3.5 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 (?)
Acquisition
Year 2001
Provenance Brussel, Josse Vandersteen, antiquair
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Uitgebeeld is een buitenvelder van de lichte infanterie van na 1812.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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