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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Pipe Bowl

middle of 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pipe bowl of red burnished earthenware. Flaring bowl standing on a disc with a toothed edge. Short stem set at an angle to the bowl, decorated with carved milled and beaded bands. Similar carved decoration around the lower part of the bowl and on the upper side of the disc.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, burnished, carved and beaded
Brief description
Pipe bowl of red burnished earthenware, Asyut, middle of 19th century.
Physical description
Pipe bowl of red burnished earthenware. Flaring bowl standing on a disc with a toothed edge. Short stem set at an angle to the bowl, decorated with carved milled and beaded bands. Similar carved decoration around the lower part of the bowl and on the upper side of the disc.
Dimensions
  • Length: 7.6cm
Credit line
Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.7-1958

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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