Museum number:

APM 19.504

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier with bear cap

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with thin long moustache and sideburns, high bearskin hat with hanging red cloth on the right, a golden plume protrudes above the hat, bust with a raised collar and upright curled cloak collars. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "XIX".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.66 in (9.3 cm)
BowlHeight3.07 in (7.8 cm)
Width1.97 in (5 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
CountryFrance (?)
Trade number 19
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Artillerist te paard van de keizerlijke garde.

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