Museum number:

APM 19.511

Subcollection:

porcelain pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

bust soldier with high military cap

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with a small moustache, goatee and long narrow sideburns, high cylindrical uniform cap with cockade and narrow peak, dark uniform over which a light spotted fur collar. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "XXXXVI".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.35 in (8.5 cm)
BowlHeight3.23 in (8.2 cm)
Width1.42 in (3.6 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 46
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000

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