S.T. Dupont 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Large Ashtray — Gulf Stream

S.T. Dupont 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Large Ashtray — Gulf Stream

The Nautilus is not a subtle object. In Verne's novel it is vast, powerful, and entirely unlike anything the world had imagined before it. S.T. Dupont's Gulf Stream ashtray approaches its subject with the same attitude: a large porcelain piece with the Nautilus pattern rendered in relief, covered in the deep blue of the ocean current it references, and finished with hand-painted detail along the grooves. It does not quietly suggest the collection. It embodies it.

Gulf Stream — The Chapter and the Color

Chapter Nineteen of Part Two places the Nautilus in the Gulf Stream — the ocean's most powerful natural current, fast-moving and perilous, the kind of force that demonstrates the quality of the machine navigating it. The Gulf Stream range uses the chapter's color: deep ocean blue, applied in lacquer to each piece. On the large ashtray, the blue covers the Nautilus pattern in a tone that deepens in the grooves where the hand-painted finish accumulates — a surface that changes with the light.

Nautilus Pattern / Hand-Painted Grooves

The large ashtray's Nautilus pattern is the collection's most sculptural element — a design in relief that gives the porcelain surface a depth the flat lacquer pieces cannot match. The grooves within the pattern are finished by hand, building up the blue in the lower registers and creating a surface that suggests the ocean's own layering. The glossy overall finish brings the blue to its full intensity.

A Porcelain Statement

At 200 × 170mm and 610g, the Gulf Stream large ashtray is a piece designed for the room, not just the desk. It sits with weight and authority, the kind of object that defines the surface it rests on. In blue with hand-painted grooves, it pairs naturally with the Gulf Stream Line 2 lighter and cigar cutter stand — the full Premium tier assembled in one palette.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.