Museum number:

APM 16.263

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust Napoleonic soldier with sideburns and high bearskin hat with silver cord and high plume, bust with high uniform collar. Polychrome painting, heightened with silver. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number XXV.

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

BowlHeight10 cm
Width4,2 cm
StemLength3 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type manchetpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use ongerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalThüringen (?)
Trade number 25
Acquisition
Year 2001
Provenance Brussel, Josse Vandersteen, antiquair
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Schutter uit de Italiaanse infanterie.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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