Museum number:
| APM 4.103a |
Subcollection:
| clay pipes |
Title:
| tobacco pipe |
Keyword:
| eagle on globe, tower |
Description:
Tobacco pipe made of clay with figural bowl, flat base and up going stem with stub. Bowl shaped like a defense tower with an eagle with spread wings on the front in high relief. Bowl right standing Napoleon, left a tree. Stem the shape of a rock with bushes. Inscriptions on the left "HONNEUR A L'ARMEE FRANCAISE" (honour to the French army) and on the right "NAPOLEON BONAPARTE EMPEREUR", on the globe "ESPAGNE ITALY SARDAIGNE, AURICHE POLOGNE RUSSIA PORTUGAL, TURQUIE BELGIQUE HOLLANDE" and on the stones of the tower "FRIEDLAND FLEUBUS BRESLAU LUTZEN PYRAMIN .. WAGRAM RAUTZEN LEIPZIG ABOUKIR MOSKOWA DANTZICH MARENCO ARCOLE JENA ULM MONTENE .. FLESSINGUE ..". Yellow lacquer, burnt brow along the bowl opening. Press mould in five parts. |
Date:
| Period | 1870 - 1900 |
Dimensions:
| Bowl | Height | 2.76 in (7 cm) |
| Width | 1.69 in (4.3 cm) | |
| Stem | Length | 0.79 in (2 cm) |
| Weight | 95 gram |
| Pipe type | stub stemmed pipe |
| Pipe shape | figural |
| Material | pipe clay (ceramic) |
| Technique | press moulded |
| Colour | white |
| Finish | lak, calciné |
| Traces of use | ongerookt |
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | France |
| Region national | Ardennes |
| Town | Givet |
| Maker | Gambier |
| Trade number | 406 |
| Trade name | l'aigle, tête |
| Mark | JG (stempel, ketel oz.) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Provenance | Brussel, Josse Vandersteen, antiquair |
| Brussel, collectie Jacques Caro, <1980-1986 |
| Vgl. APM 22.893 vergelijkbaar object in porselein. |
| Don Duco, The Intriguing world of the French clay pipe. WoubruggePipe, the worldwide pipe smoke's magazine, 10/2, 1999. p 17. Dit exemplaar. |
| Don Duco, Napoleonpijpen: politiek statement of rage-item?. Amsterdam, 2013. afb 14. Dit exemplaar. |
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, vitrine 19de eeuw, 4 juni 1986 - 31 december 1993. |
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