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Description: | 'Wooden [pipe] bowl, brass mounted. Brass stem and ivory mouthpiece. Equipped with tweezers and cleaning wire.'
A pipe bowl has a structure of wood, including a tapering stem and a rounded bowl with a flat bottom. The wood is decorated with copper alloy studs and pear-shapes. The end of the stem has a copper alloy fixing, to which a chain is attached that connects to the lid that has holes in the sides, a domed top and a bird figure on the top. The top of the pipe bowl also has a copper alloy fixing that has a loop on one side and a hook on the other.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn12406.1 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | brass (alloy) wood pipe bowls (pipes (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking)) copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-121132 | Go to resource |
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