Museum number:

APM 19.506

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier with half-height helmet

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with long sideburns, military helmet with a conical shape with a narrow visor, a protruding feather-shaped plume on the top edge, braided cords and hanging decorations, a braided chin strap, bust with a raised uniform collar. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "III".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight8,8 cm
BowlHeight6,7 cm
Width4 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 3
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Artillerist uit de periode 1808-1812, mogelijk een muzikant uit de keizerlijke garde.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2012.

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