A pipe with a copper alloy, conical mouthpiece with a rounded rim and several bands of decoration further down. The central section of the stem is made of wood that is covered in a dark and shiny pigment. This is then connected to a copper alloy section that has bands at the end but is largely undecorated and connected to the clay bowl. The clay bowl is moulded with a duck and scroll design and the bowl is a hemisphere.
label: yellow with black type
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