Lot Essay
Cf. Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 105 for a pipe-head of similar form with Hausmalerei decoration
Details
A MEISSEN KAKIEMON PIPE-HEAD, the bowl of baluster form and with short cylindrical stem painted with indianische Blumen, each side of the bowl moulded with a mon enriched in puce, iron-red and gilding (slight rubbing to enamels and slight rim chip to bowl), circa 1735 with white metal mounts, wood stem and amber mouthpiece