Moulded, porcelain pipe bowl in the form of a Turkish chibook. The end of the pipe bowl has straight sides decorated with green leaves and blue, yellow, orange and purple flowers. Around the centre of the bowl and tip of the stem connection there are bands of purple scales. The outer surface of the bowl has been decorated all over with gold, purple, yellow and blue patterns. There is a chip in the rim.
label: yellow with black type
label: brown paper with black type
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