Museum number:

APM 19.502

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

bust Napoleonic soldier with bear cap with feather

Description:

Porcelain tobacco pipe with figural bowl, round bottom without heel and ascending stem with narrow stub. Bowl bust of a soldier with moustache and goatee, long sideburns, bearskin with tres and hanging decorations on the right and a pointed patch, a high green plume on the left with a red top, bust with a raised uniform collar. Bowl bottom cut away kiln support, decoration of leaf gold lines. Stem internally scratched model number "XXII".

Date:

Period 1835 - 1860


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight11 cm
BowlHeight8,1 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
CountryFrankrijk (?)
Trade number 22
Acquisition
Year 2008
Provenance Brussel, collectie Daniël Glinoer, 2000-2008
Brussel, veilinghuis, 2000
Comments
Jager te paard van de keizerlijke garde onderdeel elite regiment.

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