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:
General | Height | 4.09 in (10.4 cm) |
Bowl | Height | 2.83 in (7.2 cm) |
Width | 2.28 in (5.8 cm) | |
Stem | Length | 0.98 in (2.5 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 | France (?) |
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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