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7 - A GERMAN PORCELAIN PIPE BOWL COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, PROBABLY KPM, CIRCA 1815-30
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A GERMAN PORCELAIN PIPE BOWL COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, PROBABLY KPM, CIRCA 1815-30 in the white with relief busts in biscuit of Wellington and Blücher flanking a gilt 'sun in splendour' and above ribbon-tied laurel sprays and the motto 'La belle Alliance', with gilt-metal mounts, the wind-cap with a cliché to the top of the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga dated 1814, 11cm long See another example of this rare pipe at the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, No. APM 30.002. In German the erstwhile name for the famous battle was La Belle Alliance, the name of an inn near where Blücher and Wellington met the night of their victory over Napoleon. The roundel to the wind-cap celebrates the return to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate of the Quadriga, taken by the French to Paris and repatriated following Napoleon's first defeat in 1814.
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