Porcelain tobacco pipe

Made:
1900-1906
Porcelain tobacco pipe, egg-cup' bowl with silver plated cover

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Porcelain tobacco pipe, egg-cup' bowl with silver plated cover
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Porcelain tobacco pipe, "egg-cup" bowl with silver plated cover, porcelain reservoir with cherrywood stem and horn mouthpiece, mountain scene with herd of elks on bowl, Lucerne, Swiss, 1900-1906

Details

Category:
Smoking
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A22625
Materials:
mount, silver, plated, bowl cover, silver, plated, porcelain, glazed, reservoir, porcelain, glazed, stem, cherry and mouthpiece, horn
Measurements:
overall: height 225 mm
bowl: height 75 mm
length 100 mm
bowl, external: diameter 34 mm
bowl, aperture: diameter 23 mm
type:
tobacco pipe
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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