Museum number:

APM 19.501

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier with two-sided stitch

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with long moustache and sideburns, two-sided stitch on the head with a high plume of feathers diagonally in white, red and blue, bust with uniform jacket with raised green collar. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "XX".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.09 in (10.4 cm)
BowlHeight2.83 in (7.2 cm)
Width2.28 in (5.8 cm)
StemLength0.98 in (2.5 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
CountryFrance (?)
Trade number 20
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Hoofdofficier uit de keizerlijke garde van Napoleon vanwege de gouden bies langs de kraag.
Literature
Don Duco, Topstukken uit het Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 2010. Hoofdstuk: Een regiment Napoleontische soldaten. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. Hoofdstuk: Een regiment Napoleontische soldaten. Dit exemplaar.

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