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LOT 2119
Post Medieval Figural Coquilla Pipe
FRENCH COLONIES, 19TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (177 grams, 15.5 cm).
Bowl formed as a jester head with prominent hooked nose and insert glass eyes, smoking a cigar, wearing a crown and prominent necklace, removable cylindrical cap to the top of the head; ascending stem with ribbed bottom and everted flat rim at the back.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Europe.
Acquired on the English art market.
See Amsterdam Pipe Museum, item APM 16.212.
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