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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Roger Fresco-Corbu, Faces on French Clay Pipes, Country Life, Juen 14, 1962, p.1445-1446. Comparable pipe bowls were made by the French manufacturers, Fiolet, of St. Omer (est.1765), who introduced the distinctive enamel colouring to the soft white clay and produced an array of ornamental pipes, typically bearded Turk's heads. Dumeril, also from St. Omer, successfully produced a range of pipe bowls modelled as historical heads in a brown clay, finished in a flat red glaze, from 1845 to 1895. Finally, the popular firm, Gambier of Paris, became a generic name for ornamental clay pipes during the second half 19th century.
Roger Fresco-Corbu, Faces on French Clay Pipes, Country Life, Juen 14, 1962, p.1445-1446. Comparable pipe bowls were made by the French manufacturers, Fiolet, of St. Omer (est.1765), who introduced the distinctive enamel colouring to the soft white clay and produced an array of ornamental pipes, typically bearded Turk's heads. Dumeril, also from St. Omer, successfully produced a range of pipe bowls modelled as historical heads in a brown clay, finished in a flat red glaze, from 1845 to 1895. Finally, the popular firm, Gambier of Paris, became a generic name for ornamental clay pipes during the second half 19th century.