Lot 257
  • 257

A Kloster Veilsdorf porcelain pipe bowl, circa 1766

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • porcelain, metal-mounts
  • approximately 7.3cm., 2 7/8 in. long
modelled by Friedrich Eugen Döll, as the head of a bearded old man, wearing a black hat and a yellow and blue striped neckerchief, with metal mounts,

Condition

There is some wear to black enamel of hat. There are three shallow chips to the brim of the hat, and two shallow chips to the underside of his neckerchief. The metal mounts probably of a later date.
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Catalogue Note

For another example of this rare form see Walter Morgenroth, Tabakpfeifen sammeln. Kunstwerke in Porzellan, Munich, 1989,  pl. XX, no. 77, where the author notes the model was first created in June, 1766.